A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

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."

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.

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.

A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.

A great number isn’t bad though, but doesn’t take numbers to change the world.

If you control the code, you control the world. This is the future that awaits us.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

God says, 'You know what? I don't have anybody else... except you.'

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.

Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.