Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.

Different people work different ways.

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

When it comes to carving out a unique niche in the over-congested world of football ‘personalities, ’ Jürgen Norbert Klopp has it down.

The people who are running this planet are insane - they are literally destroying it. I don't know where they think they're gonna drink water, breathe air.

When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.