It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin.

I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.

I notice anytime anything wrong happens, establishment politicians like to say the Russians.

I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.