Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.

There are so many difficult things and stories can make them palatable. That's the way I have always felt.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.

Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.

I want success. I want to do something. I really want people to remember my name.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.