“Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.”

“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.”

“When its true, when it's right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.”

“He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet."You looove me," he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,"You love me this much.”

“Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie. ”

“How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?”

“We would be outnumbered a couple hundred to two, by something worse than Erasers. I had no idea if the rest of the Flock would be able to help.It was pretty much a suicide mission.Again.'There is one bright side to this,' said Fang.'Yeah? What's that?' The new and improved Erasers would mutilate us before they killed us?He grinned at me so unexpectedly that I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet. 'You looove me,' he crooned smugly. Holding his arms out wide, he added, 'You love me this much.'My shriek of appalled rage could probably be heard in California, or maybe Hawaii.”