It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.