Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

I think it's interesting that the United States and Australia are two of the most individualistic nations in the entire world in terms of national personality.

Never believe a man's claim that he has to harm his partner in order to protect her; only abusers think this way.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.