She left feeling dirty, and on the bus ride home she knew that what her uncles told her had come tru...
DAVID BERGEN An editor is an accomplice, looking in from the outside. That objective view is essential. We don...
DAVID BERGEN When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ign...
DAVID BERGEN For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps simil...
DAVID BERGEN A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.
DAVID BERGEN I think a construction project for me is like writing a novel. I can't do the project unless I c...
DAVID BERGEN Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is righ...
DAVID BERGEN It's somewhat of a contradiction, ... I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to pus...
DAVID BERGEN -Because they're free.
-They might look free, but they aren't. Believe me. You're free.
-H...
DAVID BERGEN On the literal level, Ada is looking for her father. Charles's search is more psychological. Physica...
DAVID BERGEN I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still s...
DAVID BERGEN As a writer, you write the book, you give it to your editor, it's copy edited, it's publishe...
DAVID BERGEN I've always been interested in the emotion of longing,
DAVID BERGEN I didn't expect to be up here. I'm quite humbled by this and the main reason I'm humbled is that the...
DAVID BERGEN We at this church will not perform the civil unions of same-sex couples because it would be un-Bibli...
DAVID BERGEN Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To ...
DAVID BERGEN The IMPAC is a terribly important award.
DAVID BERGEN Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
DAVID BERGEN At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decid...
DAVID BERGEN I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my ed...
DAVID BERGEN I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagi...
DAVID BERGEN Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the C...
DAVID BERGEN Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.
DAVID BERGEN I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by t...
DAVID BERGEN You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.
DAVID BERGEN As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.
DAVID BERGEN I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of...
DAVID BERGEN In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete....
DAVID BERGEN What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity ...
DAVID BERGEN I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
DAVID BERGEN That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.
DAVID BERGEN One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Ag...
DAVID BERGEN Failure is essential. Trial and error is necessary.
DAVID BERGEN -And what would you do if you lost a child?
-I would think I was going to die, Elena said. But ...
DAVID BERGEN Words mean nothing. They are like the husks of the coffee Bean. They cover what is essential, which ...
DAVID BERGEN Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.
CANDICE BERGEN Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remembe...
ERICH BERGEN I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
EDGAR BERGEN Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
EDGAR BERGEN So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for...
EDGAR BERGEN OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
EDGAR BERGEN But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
EDGAR BERGEN After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a touri...
EDGAR BERGEN I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
EDGAR BERGEN Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
EDGAR BERGEN You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
EDGAR BERGEN Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or ...
EDGAR BERGEN Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
EDGAR BERGEN It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
CANDICE BERGEN Were women meant to do everything-work and have babies?
CANDICE BERGEN People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. Peopl...
CANDICE BERGEN Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will ...
CANDICE BERGEN I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed....
CANDICE BERGEN I remember the pilot like it was yesterday, ... From the day I read that script, there was some kind...
CANDICE BERGEN Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
CANDICE BERGEN Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans
CANDICE BERGEN I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choic...
CANDICE BERGEN But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
CANDICE BERGEN Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - bu...
CANDICE BERGEN It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It hap...
CANDICE BERGEN It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
CANDICE BERGEN I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age ...
CANDICE BERGEN I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she woul...
CANDICE BERGEN I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
CANDICE BERGEN I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
CANDICE BERGEN I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collap...
CANDICE BERGEN Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
CANDICE BERGEN Glamorized... am I glamorous?
CANDICE BERGEN I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
CANDICE BERGEN I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
CANDICE BERGEN Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
CANDICE BERGEN When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
CANDICE BERGEN I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was mo...
CANDICE BERGEN At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
CANDICE BERGEN Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
CANDICE BERGEN Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
CANDICE BERGEN People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. Peopl...
CANDICE BERGEN Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by...
CANDICE BERGEN Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
CANDICE BERGEN Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the ...
BERGEN EVANS There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t...
BERGEN EVANS Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no fr...
BERGEN EVANS I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy br...
CANDICE BERGEN We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. Ideas of the Stone Age exist s...
BERGEN EVANS That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itsel...
BERGEN EVANS Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by bri...
CANDICE BERGEN I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone les...
CANDICE BERGEN Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
EDGAR BERGEN On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whos...
PETER BERGEN Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.
PETER BERGEN I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I thin...
CANDICE BERGEN Mohammed Taheri-Azar, a naturalized U.S. citizen hailing from Iran, crashed his SUV into a crowd at ...
PETER BERGEN Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the sele...
BERGEN EVENS There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t...
BERGEN EVANS [T]here is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
BERGEN EVANS There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t...
BERGEN EVANS We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us.
BERGEN EVANS Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
BERGEN EVANS Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the sele...
BERGEN EVANS There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t...
BERGEN EVANS There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t...
BERGEN EVANS Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no ...
BERGEN EVANS The sitting prime minister, Jose Aznar, who had strongly backed the U.S.-led Iraq War, was unseated ...
PETER BERGEN More than a decade and half after 9/11, U.S. military actions in countries such as Syria, Iraq and A...
PETER BERGEN The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N....
PETER BERGEN Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to...
CANDICE BERGEN Western Mosul is the historic heart of one of the oldest cities in the world. Its narrow streets and...
PETER BERGEN The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives t...
PETER BERGEN Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'
ERICH BERGEN Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every...
POLLY BERGEN Bannon should never have had a permanent seat on the NSC, as he is a political operative, and the NS...
PETER BERGEN A decade and a half ago, the U.S. Air Force dropped massive 15,000-pound 'Daisy Cutter' bomb...
PETER BERGEN It's much harder to detect a lone wolf than it is somebody who's associated with a larger or...
PETER BERGEN Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvar...
PETER BERGEN Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Uni...
PETER BERGEN In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Speci...
PETER BERGEN ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so ...
PETER BERGEN When ISIS and al Qaeda have attacked or plotted attacks in the West in the past decade or so, they h...
PETER BERGEN Both China and Russia felt duped by the U.N. 'no-fly' zone resolution regarding Libya in 201...
PETER BERGEN Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
EDGAR BERGEN Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
BERGEN EVANS The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
BERGEN EVANS In mid-November 2001, as they moved toward the city of Kandahar, the Taliban's de facto capital ...
PETER BERGEN 9/11 was a sort of hinge event in American history, and all jihadi terrorist plots or attacks are ki...
PETER BERGEN Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
EDGAR BERGEN Maybe it is the war or the movies or because this generation was bred on radio comedy, but I found o...
EDGAR BERGEN OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
EDGAR BERGEN Charlie, what is nature of life?
EDGAR BERGEN The commonly accepted definition of terrorism is that it is politically motivated violence directed ...
PETER BERGEN When Abu Zubaydah was shown a series of photos of al Qaeda members by Soufan, he identified one of t...
PETER BERGEN It starts at the top. It's valuable. When you have a young group, they might not have that push. By ...
SHANNAN BERGEN The Green Berets of U.S. Special Forces 5th Group - known as 'the Legion' - who led the anti...
PETER BERGEN The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.
PETER BERGEN The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking ...
PETER BERGEN If a parent knows that their kid is suddenly becoming infatuated with ISIS, they face a very difficu...
PETER BERGEN I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Mar...
ERICH BERGEN There is clearly a lot of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, less so in Afghanistan, but I think t...
PETER BERGEN This is not rhetoric. This is for real.
PETER BERGEN There's overwhelming evidence bin Laden was behind the attacks of September 11. If the family choose...
PETER BERGEN Saddam Hussein was put on notice that he can't do those type of things.
PETER BERGEN The purported will states, 'Attack them on the sea. Attack them on the land. Attack them everywhere....
PETER BERGEN They're going public, ... They're saying, 'We're having this war against the United States.'
PETER BERGEN At night, temperatures here fall below the freezing point.
PETER BERGEN After all, the chain of custody of these tapes is the one way to find bin Laden. He obviously feels ...
PETER BERGEN There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less t...
BERGEN EVANS Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no f...
BERGEN EVANS I came to Southbury because I wanted to live a more simple life. When I was a child, I saw lots of m...
POLLY BERGEN In the past, Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, of which SEAL Team 6 is a key component, has...
PETER BERGEN 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a great piece of filmmaking and does a valuable public service by rais...
PETER BERGEN Glamorized ... am I glamorous?
CANDICE BERGEN What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the Un...
PETER BERGEN One meeting does not make a conspiracy. Saddam Hussein does not engage in these types of acts.
PETER BERGEN We've been consolidating radar services literally for decades. When we do this, we make optimum use ...
KATHLEEN BERGEN Why not just flip the two and have the team thing at the end?
BOB BERGEN The dual meets are much more fan-friendly than these individual tournaments that drag on for 12 hour...
BOB BERGEN I think wrestling would take a big step forward if it treated itself like other team sports. I?d lik...
BOB BERGEN She's a kid that'll go through a brick wall for you.
SHANNAN BERGEN I'd seen the show, and I'd read the reviews of the show, and I said, 'Oh! What I wouldn't give to wo...
CANDICE BERGEN I love the sort of cat and mouse with Denny Crane and that's really fun to play,
CANDICE BERGEN When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?
CANDICE BERGEN I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfe...
CANDICE BERGEN Typically, terrorist attacks produce a rally-around-the flag effect as was the case after 9/11 and t...
PETER BERGEN The hard reality is that attacks by vehicles in public places are very hard to defend against in a f...
PETER BERGEN The thing that's very puzzling to somebody who's been in Pakistan repeatedly since 1983 is l...
PETER BERGEN Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Commi...
PETER BERGEN I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by ...
ERICH BERGEN It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the 'war on terror' than the popular revolts...
PETER BERGEN Bury the shit when you can and fess up if you can't.
MARGAUX BERGEN I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'...
POLLY BERGEN I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
EDGAR BERGEN What keeps [friends] together? Common history, some shared conquests, a delight in ideas and people ...
MARGAUX BERGEN Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that ...
MARGAUX BERGEN The special reverence that al Qaeda had for Sheikh Rahman was underlined by a two-hour propaganda vi...
PETER BERGEN In Yemen, the United States conducted more drone strikes in 2016 than any year except 2012, the peak...
PETER BERGEN Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great ...
PETER BERGEN To think that this was once Happy Valley.
EDGAR BERGEN We had to have a star each week... Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with...
EDGAR BERGEN Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.
EDGAR BERGEN An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, 'Iraq After America,' ...
PETER BERGEN We expect to focus on the specific circumstances of the Pensacola accident, as opposed to an overall...
KATHLEEN BERGEN We expect to focus on the specific circumstances of the Pensacola accident, as opposed to an overall...
KATHLEEN BERGEN With the air traffic controllers' contract negotiations pending, no date has been set for future dep...
KATHLEEN BERGEN Many airports operate very safely without an ASDE system,
KATHLEEN BERGEN For an entire fleet to have to remain on the ground is unusual, but keep in mind that this fleet is ...
KATHLEEN BERGEN The accident has to be completely investigated.
KATHLEEN BERGEN He left behind his cowboy boots and luggage but he came back and the police were there.
KATHLEEN BERGEN We never saw the plane on radar or had any contact with the aircraft.
KATHLEEN BERGEN Of course, anyone who is planning to go to the impacted airports will not be going there and, other ...
KATHLEEN BERGEN It is a complex airplane and someone would have to be an experienced pilot to fly that type of aircr...
KATHLEEN BERGEN The station was operating on a backup transmitter that they don't normally use, and that was creatin...
KATHLEEN BERGEN The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone...
POLLY BERGEN America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order th...
PETER BERGEN The documentary feature film 'Legion of Brothers' tells the stories of the handful of U.S. S...
PETER BERGEN 'Jersey Boys' was a lot of running around and a lot of energy, but it was more stylized move...
ERICH BERGEN My dad grew up in Pittsburgh in the '50s, and he used to sing Four Seasons songs on the stoop. H...
ERICH BERGEN Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conserva...
PETER BERGEN I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so l...
CANDICE BERGEN I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
CANDICE BERGEN As a person, I'm just really kitchy and corny, and I love '70s variety shows.
ERICH BERGEN