The County Jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity.

His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's feeling of complete control.

Strike said "Huh" again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.

You bring the influence of the Kingdom to the people by giving them things that would interest them

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!

It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.

If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.