You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

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.

God the first garden made and the first city Cain.

In 1983, before computers came along, it wasn't easy to do electronic basslines and rhythms.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

I do feel fortunate to have some great options.

I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.