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The advanced interstellar culture operates on a barter system. Never saw that one coming.

Felt the dark finger of hypocrisy stroking his soul.

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

Does a chicken have lips?

The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood.

Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.

These characters are not spontaneous creations. They are engineered down to the last nut and bolt.

trust no one, everything breaks, nothing works as advertised, and if anything can go wrong, it will.

Got Hollow Points?" Another said: "Heavily Armed . . . and easily pissed." A third one: "Point and Click . . . means you're out of ammo.

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.

One of the girls said, "I think you should go now." Virgil stood

bleeding heavily, her eyes flat with

Volvos are fundamentally invisible.

love of money is the root of all evils.' Timothy, six-ten.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

Lot of Irish in Mexico. The Mexican name, Obregon? It comes from O'Brien.

Even thinking was hard.

bit: that there was a possibility of a conspiracy aimed at Michaela Bowden.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn't always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.

systems - power, propulsion, communication, life support - were

Never been there, the Middle East," Qatar said vaguely.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Fresh ideas from this group was virtually an oxymoron, Marlys thought, wriggling her butt against the comfortless chair.

Carver was truculent: "What's a good part of it?

bar. Lucas pointed at a stool and said, "Beer?

....there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

comment. "Are you sure you've got the

I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.

So she made no secret about being gay?"
"Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.

copy of an aerial photo from the engineering department.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt.

If there were honorary degrees for assholes, he'd be a doctor of everything," Lily said.

Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.

I'll bring pajamas " she said.
"Yeah? You have any idea how old I am?"
"Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight.

It's okay with us," Dannon said, and now there was something in his eye, a little spark of pleasure, a job well done. Lucas thought, This isn't good.

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it.

LOUISE WAS SORTING nuts and bolts into metal bins at the back of the somnambulant hardware store.

Nuts don't come in bunches. Only grapes do.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

The woman had thick plastic glasses and looked up at them, eyes large as eggs behind the lenses, and asked, "Jeez, who got murdered?

They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.

Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes.

Lucas was starting to feel like a yo-yo, and Iowa City was the finger.

Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.

Does Raggedy Ann have a cotton crotch?

Carol Druze Was A Stone Killer.

I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth.

When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird.

JENKINS AND VIRGIL walked back up the valley to the Ruff house, and found Muddy inside, tootling on a black electric guitar, a complex

Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean.

If I get killed, put my boots back on me.

a few times, and then pushed the screen door open. "Let's go," Stern said. As they crossed the porch

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

LIKE ANY GOOD MINNESOTAN, Lucas rarely missed the TV weather before going to bed.

Lucas's position was supine: that is, whenever he heard people arguing about it, he wanted to lie down and take a nap.

was crooked as a sidewinder rattlesnake. "So what

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

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.