He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.
It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out of you.
The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship. Even when I tried to get away it was there swirling in a vortex around...
Kate and Kendrick were those rare English bureaucrats who lived in the future not the past, something that no one in Ireland ever did.
This place was not like the Victorian Prisons of England with their imposing red-brick and neo-gothic architecture that was supposed to impress inmates with the power of the state;no, this place looke...
Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.
Don't worry, Duffy. I like you. We'll kill you last.
I’d met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept.
How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked. 'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.
A man once told me that all books should end at chapter seventy-seven.
A bullet in the head will fix an incipient asthma attack every time.
Squirrel is in a pine tree, when all of a sudden, it starts shaking. He looks down, and sees an elephant climbing the tree. ‘What are you doing? Why are you climbing my tree?’ the squirrel calls down...
Radio One played Ebony and Ivory, a new song by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. The breakfast DJ Mike Read played it two times in a row which was pretty hardcore of him as it was clearly the worst s...
Keeping pigeons without a licence is illegal as well, but we can’t have people going round shooting pigeon-keepers, can we? It is the job of the RUC to enforce the law in Northern Ireland, not paramil...
Age hasn’t matured you. It’s made those traits that were ticks in the twenty-five-year-old into full-blown affectations in the thirty-eight-year-old.
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You ever read Thucydides? I’ll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.
The driver had on Radio 1, which was giving us Kylie Minogue's 'I should be so lucky'....By the song's second verse I was already longing for an IRA ambush and and by the second chorus I was dreaming...
Johnnie Walker in the tea, Jim Beam in the coffee