You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are.

When are you at your most defenseless?

You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

He looked from the phone to the unconscious figure of the Salesman. "What did you do to him?" he asked. "He got the wrong number," Alex said.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.