Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.

Ewan McGregor

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.

George Moore

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special day. Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

George R. R. Martin

To finish first, you must first finish.

Rick Mears

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Ambrose Bierce

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

Paul Tillich

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Willa Cather

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

Darrell Royal

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie