On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

You can't miss what you never had.

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

There's also a down side.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once you’ve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when it’s time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.