The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.

Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

I get through some print.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

I have not failed. I have just found 10, 000 ways it will NOT work.

The gentleness of your action touched my heart.

Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

Having her favorite breakfast always made her feel cozy, like a warm blanket was being wrapped around her.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

You either expect to win, so when you do win, you're relieved instead of excited and if you lose instead of being motivated, you're embarrassed.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

The core failure of Team Obama is not a failure to communicate, but a failure to comprehend.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.