People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.

She shook her head slowly. “I don’t believe you. You can’t be a cop.” “Not a cop.” “Federal agent?” “FBI.” “Even more unlikely.” “J. Edgar rolls over in his grave every day, but that’s the way it is.

I love being the bad guy, simply because I was always so responsible, so predictable growing up.

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.