I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

All men of honor are alone.

Persistance is the quality of winners. Successful people never never give up

To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.

When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

I'm like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.