She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized.

I've never been in love, but if a penguin can find a soul mate, I'm sure I can, too.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

God, keep me from what they call 'households,'

First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

Learn to hide your need and show your skill.

Achievement is talent plus preparation

I want every movie to be like a big family and a great adventure.