People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

There are only two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those that will be. Even that is merging into one category: those that have been hacked and will be again.

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat.

So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

Leaking of classified material is a concern.

No one has ever been able to convince me that optimism is not preferable to pessimism.

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

They're - FBI agents are some of the finest people you'll find anyplace in the country or the world. And I'm lucky to have the opportunity to work with them.

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.

I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels.

I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.

You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.