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

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.

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

No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person’s true destiny.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

Don't say yes to everything. Learn how to say no, because people respect a no.

What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.