The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

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.

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

Living for oneself, respecting our being is one of the most important code of anybody's existence and a person who fails to justify his being fails to justify the society as well..

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were waving or drowning.

The more you learn, the more you will be able to see, feel, love, enjoy, and understand.

What we call miracles is just what's supposed to happen. We either go with it or stand in its way.

Being self-supporting is important to me.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.