The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

California, the department store state.

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.