She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

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.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

You need me, Kane. Maybe even more than I need you.

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

Do what makes you happy, think later.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.