Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.

Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.