As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

Reacher prowled the hallway, his gun stiff-armed way out in front of him, his torso jerking violently left and right from the hips, like a crazy disco dance. The house-storming shuffle.

Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.

Danny: You can be as morally righteous as you want—in a vacuum—but throw in a second entity and you gotta start acting in response to the other.

I’m not going anywhere until you hear me out.”Oh, please no. Anything except having to listen to her lecture. I push the button that calls the

I am looking for an honest man.

All things are photographable.

I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

If a garden require it, now trench it ye may, one trench not a yard, from another go lay; Which being well filled with muck by and by, to cover with mould, for a season to lie.