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

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.