Bin Laden's death is just a punctuation point on a set of problems they've had for a long time. I think the prognosis for al-Qaida and groups like it is really bad, and that's a good thing.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

I am very suspicious of the notion that somehow bin Laden was a media creation... Bin Laden's actions made him into a big deal. Not the media.

There's some pretty good academic research that suggest that what Americans don't like is losing.

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.

Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.

And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

Strength of character isn't always about how much you can handle before you break, it's also about how much you can handle after you've broken.

It's no use crying over spilt milkWhat’s done, is done.

First solve the problem. Then, write the code.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends

Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.

Always look forward and try to push pass the negativity. I think everyone's beautiful and they deserve to be happy no matter what.

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.