Assumptions are dangerous things. I like facts a lot better.

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.

Feel free to kiss it better.

Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.

This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

Some people say funny things - but I say things funny.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

The ego is a tool. You don't separate it. It's a tool for the spirit.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.