If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

A bachelor is a man who can take a nap on top of a bedspread.

One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best writing between 5am and midday.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

We're certainly looking forward for consolidating and strengthening the U.S.-Egyptian relationship.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

Read less and think more. Read about great things and think about great questions and issues.