You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.

We need to gather intelligence, but we need to do so legally.

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.