Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.