What is central to business is the joy of creating.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

If you like Harlan Coben, you’ll love Linwood Barclay.

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.

AcceptanceThere are things I missthat I shouldn't, and those I don'tthat I should.Sometimes we wantwhat we couldn't—sometimes we lovewho we could.

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.

...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

Completely dried up, They've become beans.