A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile fired from the Soviet Union or from Cuba.

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.

Fast cars are my only vice.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

Potentially, the U.S. military has the ability to stop messages from being delivered or can alter commands without ISIS knowing.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.