To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.

In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.

The CIA’s offices in London were no secret to the MI6. In fact, the two agencies were practically kissing cousins.

Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.

There is no room for emotion in business.

Man is the only predator who hunts his own.

Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.

ISIS was not particular about how their soldiers made it to Jannah, so long as they inflicted maximum damage..

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.

I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.

I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

The 9/11 Commission Report is fatally flawed. The major conclusions of The 9/11 Commission Report, the official, conspiracy theory, are false.

I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.