My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.

You do not mess with the special investigators.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.

I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.