What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?