A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
The notion had been expressed long before by Hippocrates, but in a medical sense.
As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.
Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
John Wick is not a guy that asks for help, so when he goes to somebody for help, whoever that is, you know he's a serious cat.
If you kill me, I promise you - you will never take me alive.
If your plane is being hijacked by an armed man who, though prepared to take risks, presumably wants to go on living, there is room for bargaining.
I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.
For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.
Every policy officer is sworn to protect life, and, under the most extreme circumstances, to take life. It is a staggering responsibility that requires officers to make split second decisions.
I do everything in this life-or-death way.