"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."

"The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship."

"It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early."

"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped."

"Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military."

"No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention."

"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."

"I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story."