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

“We is always so much better than I.”

“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.”

“But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works”

“Being a good leader is knowing when...to back off.”

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