How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.

My problem with that is I don't believe God cares what we do. Everything is equally relevant and irrelevant to God. A religion is nothing more than a political party organized around some guy's moral...

As he ran, he thought about everything and anything, about the life he'd led, the children, the snatches of time frozen in his mind: a moment when he'd gotten shot in an alley, and the flash of the...

If it's criminal, it's either stupid or crazy. Stupid people usually have guns, crazy people always do. In a choice between stupid and crazy, first investigate the stupid, because stupid is more...

I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.

I mean, the guy could fall in a barrel of titties and come out suckin' his thumb.

Flowers wouldn't be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.

You gotta try harder to be kind, man. We're all trapped on this earth together.

I'm pretty delicate," Lucas admitted. "You know, when I'm not beating somebody senseless.

We ain't in California no more," Pilate said. "Every fuckin' body up here's got a gun. Even that old lady in the hamburger shop, shot Michelle.

She had to think seriously about Carver and Dannon. Dannon was well under control-he'd been her security man for four years, and for all four years had hungered for her. Not just for sex. He was in...

The nun said, I can forgive the language. I'm not sure I can forgive your making an obscene gesture at your mother. Ya gotta know her, Holland said. If you knew her, you'd give her the finger, too.

Lucas's Colt .45 Gold Cup and Beretta 92F, and drove up

Focus on our ignorance. She didn't quite grasp the concept. She'd never been ignorant.

Yael chipped in: He is trying to sell this artifact he stole. The people he is trying to sell it to are extremely dangerous. People who might kill him, if they need to, to get the stone. Virgil added,...

Hey, people get killed from time to time, that's just the way of the world, let's not bust a budget about it . . .

Haven't seen so much screaming and yelling since I went to a goat-fuck out in South

Women are basically recreational areas, with several separate facilities available at any given time.

stopped by the door

California is like a Nazi state with palm trees

Cops and schoolteachers," Sloan said with satisfaction. "A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.

Clay pulled Lucas along and as they were approaching the back door, he called, Madam Secretary . . . I need you to meet this guy. She stopped and turned and looked at Lucas and then Clay, did a quick...

The Times, whose editorial portentousness approached traumatic constipation, tried to suppress its glee under the bushel basket of feigned sadness that another civil servant had been caught in a...

Mount Pleasant was an older town, where no two houses, standing side by side, seemed to come out of the same architectural style, with nineteenth-century Victorians up against pastel-colored postwar...

He was conservative, especially on the abortion issue, and he was death on taxes; on the other hand, he had a Clintonesque attitude about women, and even a sense of humor about his own peccadilloes.

Did he ever ask you . . . or suggest to you . . . that he might want to pull some kind of dirty trick on Senator Smalls? Oh, no, he would never have done that, Fey said. I mean, he might have tried to...

LEONARD WAS A THICK, dark-haired man, Lucas's height but heavier, both in the arms and the gut. He was wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and yellow work boots. The scars around his pale, suspicious eyes...

He went on like that for a while, and before he was done, Lucas had dismissed him as being ineffectually goofy, although his ideas about the killing were roughly the same as Lucas's own. Holly said he...

We need to know who it is, if he or she is there, Lucas said. That person's life could be in danger from the same people who killed Tubbs . . . unless he or she did it. Then, that'd mean you're...

You think we could get them around by the pool? Taryn asked. Well, we could, but why would we? Because it looks rich. The point is, if this hurts me, I'll be hurt with the more conservative voters out...