Quotes About Author

I realized that writing something is different from saying it — and that love stories are built around people's idiosyncrasies.

I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

of the Second Amendment: we are endowed with words as our most intimate and overlooked form of power; these are the arms we bear.

You may read all about the coast watchers in a book called "Lonely Vigil - Coastwatchers of the Solomons, " by Walter Lord.)

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

we got a hint of how the Espionage Act would be used as a club against people with anti-war beliefs

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

It remains open to question whether anything that confines itself to the human sphere could ever attain anything but the subhuman.

Neither do I greatly hope to influence the trained man of speculation, who has already found a theory of things which satisfies his reason.

On questions of taste there is notoriously the widest divergence of opinion.

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

I invented ideas early on; I synthesize ideas—mine and others—now.

Remember, a classic sign of addictive behavior is when something not human starts to supplant human relationships.

My comfort in exploring and expressing new ideas appears inversely proportional to my sense of stability. Among other things, this book is the fruit of my transition.

Resolve to pay attention to ideas, not just politics.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I have certainly enjoyed puzzles since an early age, and things that look like impossible things are often particularly intriguing.

I absolutely love the Mena House Oberoi hotel in Cairo, which overlooks the Great Pyramids of Giza.