A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

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?

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

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.

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.

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

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.