He was a man's man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through--and proud of it.

America, and all it had once stood for--all he had fought for--was dying...on life support, and counting.

Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic space, was clearly under siege.

She was a perfectly clean slate--a total enigma.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it s amazing what they can accomplish.

Don't complicate your life by surrounding yourself with people who see life as a competition about who has the most material possessions.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

I believe it's true that there's good and evil in everyone and it's a constant struggle to have your better angels prevail.