Can't say a body ever gets used to hard work

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.

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada."

We want to have movies be seen. So, first and foremost, what's the world? So we can get it onto a big screen.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

I think a lot of the high technology is distracting.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it," said Gregor obviously not handling it.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.