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

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give them in response. It's an exquisite novel full of heart, soul, passion and intelligence, and it's the one this great New York author was born to write.

Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.