If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

In 1939 I hadn't even realized that this was an immigration problem.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

Physically, no one would ever consider me for the serial-killer lady.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.

The bum was justified in his actions because he was homeless and poor. He was allowed to beg for money because the circumstances made it acceptable. Society had shunned him and he was owed that much.

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

One of the core ideas of the Bible is that meaning can be found in history. The sheer act of telling and retelling stories helps us to understand God's role in the world as well as our own position in a long line of ancestors who have wrestled with similar issues to the ones we wrestle with every day.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on 'Saving Hope' was so welcoming.

The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country was spending more than its income, running up large current-account deficits. Now we have to tighten our belts and save more.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

It can be a grind training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself you have to be ready because you never know if or when youll get another shot.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.