There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.