Paul Sweeney

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!