Quotes About Intrigue

When I first encountered the 'Sigma Force' novels - long before I became friends with Jim Rollins - a bookseller told me that these stories were about 'geeks with guns.' While not entirely accurate, that's pretty close to the mark, and that really speaks to me.

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.

Let's just say I was in Special Forces and leave it at that. People can read into that what they like.

People care about such bizarre and specific things about me.

A Bond movie falls into a specific genre, and you have to provide certain elements. You must respect the fact it's essentially about girls, guns, gadgets, and big action.

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip.

Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.

My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

I'm not big into spoilers. Just personally, I don't want anything spoiled.

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

What is he doing here?" Curran growled. "He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade. "Tough luck. You're mine.

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

The more I wonder, the more I love.

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.