Sometimes it is necessary to step into darkness alone and find your way back. To carry something with you into light you could not have found anywhere else.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers will have no difficulty assimilating it into what you’ve done before.

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.

Pain is the body’s voice. Listen to your body.

The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.