Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

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.

[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.

No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

When somebody says something about me I hate them for the rest of my life. It's probably wrong.

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.