After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

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.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!