Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.