Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

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.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

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