Don't Be Sad That Roses Have Thorns.

People, Reacher Was Certain About. Dogs Were Different. People Had Freedom Of Choice. If A Man Or A Woman Ran Snarling Toward Him, They Did So Because They Chose To. They Were Asking For Whatever They Got. His Response Was Their Problem. But Dogs Were Different. No Free Will. Easily Misled. It Raised An Ethical Problem. Shooting A Dog Because It Had Been Induced To Do Something Unwise Was Not The Sort Of Thing Reacher Wanted To Do.

You See Something Scary, You Should Stand Up And Step Toward It, Not Away From It. Instinctively, Reflexively, In A Raging Fury.

Some Old Guy Once Said That The Meaning Of Life Is That It Ends.

So Long As Readers Keep Reading And My Publishers Keep Publishing, I Plan To Keep On Writing. I'd Have To Be An Idiot To Be Burnt-out In This Job.

For Men, As They Get Bogged Down With Responsibilities, Commitments, Bureaucracy, It Is A Fantasy Just To Think Of Shedding Everything Literally, Walking Away With Nothing At All, And Just Hitting The Road.