Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

Don't spend...but mend yourself.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.