1. “I’m not afraid of death. Death’s afraid of me.”
2. “Hope for the best, plan for the worst.”
3. “Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government ca get into.”
4. “The best fights are the ones you don’t have, a wise man once said to me.”
5. “You mustn’t fall in love with your own hero.”
6. “The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning and answer it at the end.”
7. “Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.”
8. “Writing is a showbusiness for shy people. That’s how I see it.”
9. “Don’t be sad that the Roses have thorns. Be glad that the thorns have Roses. Today’s the day I worried about yesterday and it didn’t happen.”
10. “For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.”
11. “Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!”
12. “The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.”
13. “I’m a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.”
14. “No, I’m man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don’t, I don’t.”
15. “You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively in a raging fury.”
