It takes a great reader to make a great book.

If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.

You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.

Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.

It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.

How you do money is how you do life.

The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they’re the ones to take it away from you.

Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

The crowds at Flushing Meadow are about as impartial as a Nuremberg Rally.

Skepticism is my nature, freethought is my methodology, agnosticism is my conclusion after 25 years of being in the ministry, and atheism is my opinion.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.

I'm pretty confident, let's just say that, in my game right now, for what it is. So if that means a win, then I'll be real happy.

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.