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.

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.

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.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

I believe that destiny, and anything that is truly meant to be, will always find a way to right itself.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?