I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.
I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.
I haven't always done things this way. It's the nature of the two books. They have been so consuming that I end up living inside them.
In rooting around for something to grab onto, I latched onto the past and people in the past who I felt were strong, actively ethical characters.