I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.