Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

But if you want to win, you're going to have to fight.

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to believe in.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I'm not going to apologize for the way I've led my life.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted.

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

I'm glad God chose you to be my Dad!

Success come to those who become success conscious.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.