I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees - boil vats and vats of raw sap - evaporate the water - and keep boiling until you've distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.