Quotes from Nelson DeMille

CIA types are so into deceit, deception, double and triple crosses, paranoia, and bullshit, that you never knew what they knew

It's getting harder to tell the difference between art and vandalism.

She laughed again. "You're terrible. What are you going to complain about in the States?" "The quality of winter strawberries." Hollis glanced at his watch.

They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs." It was hard to imagine being taken prisoner in Vietnam, tortured there, then being shipped to Cuba for more of the same.

of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently

Daughters of the American Revolution don't have group sex because they don't want to have to write all those thank-you notes.

Each administration that he'd served had started out with its own unique style, its own vision, energy, optimism, and idealism. But within a year, the entrenched bureaucracy reexerted its suffocating influence, and about a year after that, the new administration began getting pessimistic, isolated, and divided with internal conflicts and squabbles.

right at Elephant Rock, which indeed

the FBI philosophy is, 'Whatever makes any other law enforcement agency or institution look bad makes us look better.

But a man can't swim in the same river twice, because it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

We're all criminally insane, but most of us have good control mechanisms, internal and external. Remove the controls and you have a killer.

Apparently, Security Solutions did not want walk-in customers or drive-by shooters.

And so to seem like a regular guy and a good hire, I said, quoting Uncle Harry, "Whatever is not a crime is a business.

totally unconnected, as inscrutable as a Tibetan monk on quaaludes.

more complicated, and that awaited further Intel.

that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

Yet, there is something about a person's eyes. . . they speak their own language, from the heart and soul. They speak love, grief, hate, innocence, and guilt. They speak the truth even as the person is lying.

From a squalid izba to a space capsule—log cabin to the stars. You have to give these people credit where it's due.

My own face-offs with death had made me see death differently. Death had become not a possibility, but a probability, so I made peace with that dark horseman, and that peace has stayed with me on my borrowed time.

I was about to rule this a dumbicide

Because the genetic makeup of a virus has to be able to… well, mesh with a cell to infect it. Human cells do not mesh with FMD virus." Beth said, "But there's some evidence that Mad Cow Disease has infected humans.

And there was a time, you know, not so long ago, as recently as my own childhood in fact, when everyone believed in the future and eagerly awaited it or rushed to meet it. But now nearly everyone I know or used to know is trying to slow the speed of the world as the future starts to look more and more like someplace you don't want to be.

Brodie smiled. He said, "When shit happens, you turn it into fertilizer for your tree of knowledge.

Well, I thought, someone has to get screwed. That's the art of the deal.