Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

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.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied

Life is about giving yourself away in the service of others. Life is not about living just to live.

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.

If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.