I think it’s more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.
The short-timers, who’d gone through hell without even a small pee in their pants, were all jittery that something was going to happen before they boarded the freedom bird home. I mean, after you’ve cheated death for so long, you become paranoid, sure that death had just remembered you were leaving.
I’m always ready for anything, but prepared for nothing.
You can get away with a bad decision, but not a bad mistake.
Old guys have seen too much, and they trust no one.
On the other hand, as every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches – if you see one, there are others.
They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs.” It was hard to imagine being taken prisoner in Vietnam, tortured there, then being shipped to Cuba for more of the same.
Most accidents, I’m convinced, are God’s way of getting rid of stupid people. Or if you believe in Darwinism, you wonder why there are any stupid people left in the world. Well, I guess they can reproduce before they remove themselves from the gene pool.
What do you do, Jack, when any move you make is the wrong move?” “You hope the other guy makes a bad move.
People who worry about what others think of them would be surprised at how little they did.
Where have all the young men gone? Gone to soldiers, every one.
The Rape of the Sabines,” by Da Bologna, which is one of the few classical paintings I can name. Sometimes I wonder about myself.
What happened between us has impacted a lot of people around us whom we care for and who care for us, so I think we should try to be civil to each other and make life easier and less awkward for everyone.
Trying to improve on anthrax is like trying to improve on gunpowder. Anthrax is easy to propagate, easy to handle, it diffuses nicely into the air, kills slowly enough for the infected population to spread it around, and cripples as many victims as it kills, causing a collapse of the enemy’s health care system.
The way to a woman’s heart is through her funny bone. Women like men who make them laugh. I think.
Sometimes people rationalize their behavior. How about the Americans who gave atomic bomb secrets to the Russians? They were people who said they did it out of conviction – so one side wouldn’t have all the power.
Sometimes I think being a cop is less dangerous than being married.
He suddenly rushed me and somehow managed to smash his balls into my fist.
Motive is tricky, and you can’t ascribe a motive and then try to make it fit the crime.
On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They are profit, revenge, jealousy, concealment of a crime, avoidance of humiliation or disgrace, and homicidal mania.
My sister, Lynne, has relocated with her A-hole husband to the West Coast – wherever that is.