Quotes from Nelson DeMille

Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.

The good news was that the streets were litter-free, maybe because no one had anything to throw away.

Amicitia sine fraude—to friendship without deceit.

Trying to improve on anthrax is like trying to improve on gunpowder. Anthrax is easy to propagate, easy to handle, it diffuses nicely into the air, kills slowly enough for the infected population to spread it around, and cripples as many victims as it kills, causing a collapse of the enemy's health care system.

It's a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down.

Well, I was on the slippery slope into the abyss of love, companionship, and happiness—and you know where that leads. Misery.

Sometimes people rationalize their behavior. How about the Americans who gave atomic bomb secrets to the Russians? They were people who said they did it out of conviction—so one side wouldn't have all the power.

Cursed are the peacemakers for they make the next war harder than the last.

There's a saying—'I'd rather regret the things I did than the things I didn't do.' " "I actually regret both.

You're smarter than you look. Did you ever have anti-terrorist training?" "Sort of. I was married.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

Sometimes I think being a cop is less dangerous than being married.

He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always about; the Grail was a phantom and the journey was inward, into their hearts and souls.

What happened between us has impacted a lot of people around us whom we care for and who care for us, so I think we should try to be civil to each other and make life easier and less awkward for everyone.

Your website shows only one booking in that time period." "Really? I need to update that. So, that's the price." "You drive a hard bargain, Mr. MacCormick." "Captain." "Captain." He glanced around. "Let's get a table." "Why?" "There are some other details you need to know.

You can get away with a bad decision, but not a bad mistake.

A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As

talented wisecracker.…

He suddenly rushed me and somehow managed to smash his balls into my fist.

The journey home is never a direct route; it is, in fact, always circuitous, and somewhere along the way, we discover that the journey is more significant than the destination and that the people we meet along the way will be the traveling companions of our memories forever.

Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. All roads lead to Rome.

ATTF) represented in this novel is based on the actual Joint Terrorism Task Force, though I have taken some literary license where necessary. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is an organization of dedicated, professional, and hardworking men and women who are in the front line in the war

The way to a woman's heart is through her funny bone. Women like men who make them laugh. I think.

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.