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" I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal. "

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" I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends. "

" Technology is changing the way we interact as humans. "

" I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters. "

" Our religions are much more similar than they are different. "

" I'm not trying to emulate William Faulkner. I never said I was. "

" If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. "

" I like mac and cheese. "

" I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you. "

" Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong. "

" For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law. "

" Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future. "

" I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing. "

" The thing that's going to make artificial intelligence so powerful is its ability to learn, and the way AI learns is to look at human culture. "

" I have great admiration for the fact-checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact-checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks. "

" It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple. "

" I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables. "

" Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. "

" Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that. "

" There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years. "

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" I love the gray area between right and wrong. "

" It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.' "