Quotes About Author

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.

There are times when there's been some discontent and muttered threats from audience members. I take no notice, and in any case, I always have John Carroll around to deflect unpleasantness.

I have experienced threats. Not just to me, but to my family.

Every European country faces threats which ignore national frontiers: pandemics, climate change, terrorism and organised crime.

I don't mean to minimize Russia. They are a serious national security threat, but day in, day out, the threats that we face from China are significantly greater. Anyone who says otherwise is just politicizing intelligence for their own narrative.

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.

A lot of people can't say that they've got three contracts in this league.

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

I'm a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.

The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.

My threshold for mean gossip is nearly intolerable.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

'Monday Mornings' is terrific. It's my wife's show. I'm just lucky enough that David Kelley threw me a bone on it as well. It's a wonderful piece based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta called 'Monday Mornings.'

I hate drugs. I drank a beer once and threw up.

Michael Cohen is one of the world's greatest evidence hoarders. He rarely threw anything away.

I love to be scared in the safety of a movie theater. It is like a thrill ride; like a roller-coaster ride.

I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.

My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'

The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.