Be sure you positively identify your target before you pull the trigger.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.

I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

I just look at what's going on in the world.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator.

I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.