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

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.

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

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.