I don't wait for inspiration. I get up and write every day.

Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.

I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good.

I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you.

It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud.

The story becomes clearer with time.

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.

I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.