I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

Sadness indeed paves to a philosophical thinking.

I knew it!"Cards fly everywhere, as if he had them hidden in his gym shorts.

I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e. "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

This is an amazing thought: a God who is indescribable.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.