Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart into pieces and made citadels of differentiation out of them.

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up.

Frankly, the only good people who I know are dogs.

If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

When September 6, 1994, arrives, no one else can become saved. The end has come.

On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.

Dr. [Martin Luther] King was a human being. He had a sense of humor which was wonderful.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.