A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?