One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.

Let's build a battery plant here.

I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

Golf is the one game I know which becomes more and more difficult the longer one plays it.

[On Bonnie Prince Charlie:] Oh, Charlie is my darling, / My darling, my darling; / Oh, Charlie is my darling, / The young Chevalier.

Hard and impossible are two different things!

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

For how tiny the world, This ant's egg-and the sky!

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.