Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

On peut chercher dans Dieu le complice et l'ami qui manquent toujours. Dieu est l'éternel confident dans cette tragédie dont chacun est le héros.

Wherever you walk, stand or sit, do it with self-confidence and be firmly convinced: I am a singer! Being tentative is one of the deadly theatre sins.

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever." But does forever have a built-in ending...?

The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.