106 Quotes by Greg Iles

And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write because of my fear someone will carry it out.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked about how evolution moves from simplicity toward complexity, and how human intelligence is the highest known expression of evolution. I remember him telling me that a frog's brain is much more complex than a star. He saw human consciousness as the first neuron of the universe coming to life and awareness. A spark in the darkness, waiting to spread to fire.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.