Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

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.

A true messenger lives a burdened life. If he is the Lord’s vessel, he carries in his heart a burden for souls none can share but those who know it firsthand.

The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

In fact most of what we call anxiety is overconcern about what someone thinks of you.

Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.