Quotes About Author

It is one of your most annoying traits." He opened his eyes, and the weight of them lay upon me like darkness. "Please

Static. "Over and out of my mind." "Roger that.

Sit down, you're puttin' a crick in my neck.

Isaac, everything to do with women is foolish and, therefore, absolutely essential.

Feeling he'd captured the throng, Trost decided to get literary. "Salus populi suprema lex esto." She looked at me. "What the fuck was that?" "Cicero—the welfare of the people is the ultimate law." Vic studied the telejournalists, all of them looking a little perplexed. "Think they'll subtitle him?

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

Most people are either politicians or bankers. Their lives are unfortunately driven by power, money or both.

Baby," he said admiringly, "baby, that was as skillful drunken driving as I've ever seen.

I think it allows the public to enjoy the thrill of a story without the fear of the reality. The reality is too much to bear, so they detach themselves from it. That's maybe how all myths were born.

Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.

Many of us who affirm and practice spiritual gifts would feel more comfortable among anticharismatics who are at least grounded in Scripture than among such flaky charismatics.

Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero.

In green shadows they died one seeking love the other ...simple beauty

expectations. So the labor force coming from the east is

Napoleon had indeed said, "Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Oscar Levant: "What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

Poetry by its very nature is subversive . . . It turns words inside out, confounds meaning, changes black and white to ambiguous shades of gray. Never trust a poet.

when your foot rests on the unknown, your body quivers with metaphysical excitement

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

Daemons had minds of their own, which could never be harnessed, even by those who sheltered them.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.