Best 21 quotes of Greg Iles on MyQuotes

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.

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

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

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.

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

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.

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

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

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

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

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

Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years; the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It was how much hunger she had on the inside that made her what she was between the sheets.

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

Nothing increases the odds of victory more than letting the enemy think he’'s already taken your secret weapon.”

The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

The past is never dead. It's not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.

We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

You can't build happiness on someone else's pain.