A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.

Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own.

Do I dream you? Or you dream me? Or does someone, something bigger than all' - her hands swept the vast constellations above them - 'this beauteous calamity, dream everything we see and more?

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

You are a unique individual with your own special features that you need to carry on your life mission

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

Help!!!! Why is Wednesday spelled like that?!!!!

I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.

In America, establishment politicians have betrayed our workers, they've betrayed our borders and, most of all, they've betrayed our freedoms.

Every little bean must be heard as well as seen!

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true.

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying.

Money is the answer for everything.