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.

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.

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 haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point of view, the difference is artificial.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

I think the marketing needs work.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it.

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.

Protecting life is a value that matters. Whether it is stopping partial birth abortion which I think is a barbarism. Or whether it is fairly enforcing the criminal laws against Planned Parenthood.