Feeling No Remorse Must Be A Blessing

I Think If Somebody Is So Set In Their Ways About What They Feel About Something - And You Get This A Lot In Academia, Of Course, And Also Different Sorts Of Journalism Too - You're Going To Sweep Under The Carpet The Facts That Don't Suit Your Thesis. And I Think That Happens Quite A Lot In The Courtroom, For Instance.

I Wasn't In Any Way A Kind Of Soothsayer Or Not Surprised When Sept. 11 Happened. I Was Absolutely Shocked.

We Have To Understand How The Extremists Got The Way They Are. Without That Kind Of Understanding, We'd Never Really Get To Know Them. I Put In Nothing About Their Childhoods. But What I Have Put In Is Stuff About The Weird Symbiotic Relationship Between Us And Them.

Discover The Time Of Day When You Write Best, And Write Then. For Me It's About 7 Am To Noon. For Other People It's Overnight. Try Not To Do Anything Other Than Write Between Those Times.

I'm Not What You'd Call A Fearless Type Of Person.