Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

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.

What are you staring at?""Rain drops on window glass is a sort of love-bite, is it not?

For an optimist life is beautiful, for a pessimist life is beautiful for the fool.

Make a differenceWhen I live everyday, I ask myself “What did I do today?To make a difference to the world where I live, And that can happen only when I can be selfless and give.

Here have I come to die, ' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.

If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.

Remember that I too am mortal.

As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things have a habit of turning out all right, just as they did for me."

There is a price, which you have to pay. You are 24 hours on the job, if you go out in public.