The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

What is central to business is the joy of creating.

I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

If you like Harlan Coben, you’ll love Linwood Barclay.

If you can't talk about it, you can't change it.

Stephanie had no problem doing what shewas told, just so long as she was given a good reason why sheshould.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

Am I a star? That's a different thing. I mean no, I'm not in People magazine. But I must be doing something right, because I've done it for 50 years! And I like doing what I do.

There's an old American saying that says you can't beat somebody with nobody.

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.