Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

See, that why I ain’t go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want’a talk to God, well I say, ‘howdy-howdy, God,’ and we jaw fer a bit.’ - Jimmy ‘Diamond’ Skinner

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

Only I could drink a thousand drinks and never forget a damn thing. I would just remember every detail of the thousand drinks down to the shapes of the ice cubes.

Trapped in a trap of your own making.