The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

They call me, The Sharkalator

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.

Pain and anger have to go somewhere. If we keep stuffing them down instead of processing them, we’ll end up either turning them inward, which isn’t good, or outward, which is no better.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

I am never tired of winning, and as your president I will win for you, the American people. I'm with you!

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.