Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst.

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end up writing about all three. They just happen to be personal obsessions of mine.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

Ever day someone somewhere in the world is quoting me.

One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls.

When love is not madness it is not love.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.

I thank God for this illness and these physical discomforts, because I have the time to converse with the Lord Jesus.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.