The first day of the rest of my life.

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

It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night." "How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.

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

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

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.

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.