If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.

I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have...""You're so sweet.'"...at the moment.

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

I collect vintage cars, so you always find them in my books.

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

Here am I send me.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.

Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.