She was a Privately funded spy ship owned by the corporation and headed by Juan Cabtillo. The Oregon was his brain child and his one true love.

Sometimes my plot lines are so convoluted, I get calls from friends at 3 am saying; you SOB, you'll never pull this one off.

To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you'll never have them again.

My friends joke that I raised the Titanic and never left the Rockies.

I know you're the only pistol champion we have, but I'd rather they no see enough of you to hit. You're also the only wife I have...""You're so sweet.'"...at the moment.

If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.

It's a job. I entertain my readers. I get up in the morning, and I start typing.

I collect vintage cars, so you always find them in my books.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority, then at the very least it gives us some room to breathe.

I have to fix this,” I told him, as clearly and calmly as I could. “If you want to help me, then help me. Don’t shield me, don’t protect me, don’t bury me alive. Help me .

You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.

It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.