Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

The first day of the rest of my life.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.

We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.

Don't be economic Girlie-Men

A lot of our young people are sleep-walking, dreaming that they're awake, and lots of aspects of society initially go about keeping it so.

If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

You haven't done the will of God when you have done it miserably.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.