I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

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.

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

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.