... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.

I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is

You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that