I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.

I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.

Every time the light turns green, stay in the thick of competition.

If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

We need to work on drug costs, and there's things we can work on on drug costs, especially Medicare Part D, to bring drug costs down.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.