People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

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.

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.

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.

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

I decided upon the thought that I can only find myself once I can admit to myself and approve that both sides are sides of myself.

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.