Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

The truth is often one's best shield.

Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The strong were always eating the weak.

Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Wizards are always troubled about the future.

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

And happiness has it's own way of taking its sweet time.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

The low bird is not picked tenderly out of the dust by its fellows; rather, it is dispatched quickly and without mercy.