You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said. "I just enter. I don't usually break." "You broke down Pitch's door." "Lost my temper." -Ranger and Stephanie

I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies.

I was going to go to church, but I decided to get doughnuts instead.

Mrs. Zuppa was coming in from bingo just as I was leaving the building. "Looks like you're going to work," she said, leaning heavily on her cane. "What are you packin'?" "A thirty-eight." "I like a nine-millimeter myself." "A nine's good." "Easier to use a semiautomatic after you've had hip replacement and you walk with a cane," she said. One of those useful pieces of information to file away and resurrect when I turn eighty-three.

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.

I think I got a bruise from landing on you. I hear bacon is real good for healing a bruise.

I'm telling you, it's fu**ing hard to be classy