I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

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.

You ought to search the Scriptures yourself, to discover the glorious gospel.

Clear clutter. Make space for you.

What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

You made a sacrifice. And heaven rewarded you.

I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them