If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Dalai Lama

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

Michael Crichton

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steve Biko

Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.

Red Symons

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

Eric Holder

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Allen Tate

Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

Philip Roth

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

Steve Wozniak