The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

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

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.