- Picasso: Confucius said, "When setting off on a path of revenge, dig two graves."
- Alex Cross: That's fine with me as long as you're in one of them.
- Thomas Kane: [Talking about Alex Cross] What do you think, we can fool him? This is a guy who can tell you had scrambled eggs for breakfast at a hundred yards.
- Alex Cross: [Toward two long-haired and bearded computer techs examining an external hard drive] What do you guys got back there?
- Computer Tech #1: The IDE was routed to the BIOS in a weird way, and the cylinder/sector was stored in the CMOS.
- Thomas Kane: Yo, yo, yo. Geico Cavemen, what do you say we break that down in English.
- Computer Tech #2: We spelunked her email account.
- Alex Cross: Are you having fun?
- Picasso: [laughs] Fun. Am I having fun? Yes. Yes, I suppose I am. But I think you'd find my hobby boring.
- Alex Cross: So your hobby is inflicting pain?
- Picasso: Oh, no, no. That's... that's not just a hobby. Inflicting pain is a crucial part of my true calling.