112 Quotes by Nelson DeMille

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

You get a promotion?""I got a polite, but firm suggestion to be a team player. [...]""You got off easy. One of my commanding officers once threw a paperweight at me.""We're a bit more subtle.

I tried to picture a bunch of guys in blue suits running around a beachside neighborhood, knocking on doors and flashing Fed creds. That should cause a stampede of illegal aliens heading south.

What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?

Me, Mia. Mama mia, Mia. Otis is rigor mortis.

I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb and acculturate any number of newcomers. But I don't know if that's true around here any longer. The outward forms and appearances look the same - [...]- but the substance has been altered.

Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.

I don't like mysteries, which is why I want to solve them. It bothers me that there are things I don't know.