You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

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.

I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

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

He picked up the wrench and broke the guy’s wrist with it, one, and then the other wrist, two, and turned back and did the same to the guy who had held the hammer, three, four. The two men were somebody’s weapons, consciously deployed, and no soldier left an enemy’s abandoned ordnance on the field in working order. The doctor’s wife was watching from the cabin door, all kinds of terror in her face. "What?" Reacher asked her.