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.

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.

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.

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Before we even discovered that we were so smart, our Manufacturer already had it all figured out.

Personal loss is the greatest motivator to a call for action!

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

There are places I don't want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It's very uncomfortable.

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.

A new child in the house is a huge tourist attraction. It's like Disneyland, except there the lines are longer and no one brings casseroles.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future writing a book, that is definitely in the plans for my career.