My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Retribution is just outstanding.

Why do relationships have to be so complicated?

You never know how the tough times you are going through today will inspire someone else tomorrow.

I think this is why Ellis took so many moving pictures of us. Because he knew that people come in and out of your life, and a picture fixes them in the moment they reach out to you.

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God’s highest callings upon your life.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

The magic of a tree is metaphorical. It celebrates its place. I brings comfort and beauty. Trees celebrate life.

Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend.

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven.

Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.

Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.