I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.