Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

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.

The courage of one can change the course of all.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.

Little things are great to little men.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.