Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

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

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.