My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

I wish the meeting had been as good as the lunch.

It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.

My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

Opposition is not there to stop you, it’s there to establish you.

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.