Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I feel so much more enriched.

Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.