It’s the way of the world, man. There are the worker bees, and the manager bees. The worker bees take care of the work, the manager bees take care of themselves.
Hey, people get killed from time to time, that’s just the way of the world, let’s not bust a budget about it . . .
He was conservative, especially on the abortion issue, and he was death on taxes; on the other hand, he had a Clintonesque attitude about women, and even a sense of humor about his own peccadilloes.
Fuck golf anyway. Stupid goddamn game, chasing a ball around a perfectly good cow pasture.
As Bowden worked the room, Jubek took Lucas around to all the other security people and told them to take a good look. If this guy tells you something, you listen, he told them. He gave Lucas his cell...
What Lucas would feel, instead, would be a murderous anger, an iceberg of hate. He would kill anyone who hurt Weather, Sam, or Letty. He’d be cold about it, he’d plan it, but the anger would never go...
We ought to go up north. It’d be nice now, out on the lakes, said the taller one. It’s been too warm. Too many mosquitoes. The tall man laughed. ‘Bullshit, mosquitoes. We’re Indians, dickhead.
We need to know who it is, if he or she is there, Lucas said. That person’s life could be in danger from the same people who killed Tubbs . . . unless he or she did it. Then, that’d mean you’re workin...
They were the rumors that might follow any rich man who stayed to himself, Virgil thought, and who at the same time was thoroughly hated.
They both knew what they were thinking, though neither said it: Taryn Grant had what it took to be president. She had the business background, she understood economics and finance, she had the money w...
The regular campaign staff, including the regular campaign manager, had no idea that the shadow staff existed.
The nun said, I can forgive the language. I’m not sure I can forgive your making an obscene gesture at your mother. Ya gotta know her, Holland said. If you knew her, you’d give her the finger, too.
THEY WALKED UP TO the front door, rang the bell. Del scratched his neck and looked at the yellow bug light and said, I feel like a bug. You look like a bug. You fall down out there? About four times....
TARYN GRANT, DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for the U.S. Senate, suffered from narcissistic personality disorder, or so she’d been told by a psychologist in her third year at the Wharton School. He’d added, I w...
She had to think seriously about Carver and Dannon. Dannon was well under control—he’d been her security man for four years, and for all four years had hungered for her. Not just for sex. He was in lo...
Schiffer recoiled: Oh, Jesus Christ, Taryn, don’t give me a heart attack, she said, clutching at her chest. Remember: no sense of humor. How many times do I have to tell you that: No sense of humor. H...
Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.
Now Flowers was arguing the same thing back to him. If Dannon and Carver had killed Tubbs, Lucas wouldn’t find out about it except by accident. If justice were to be done, it would have to be extrajud...
Never been there, the Middle East, Qatar said vaguely.
Lucas’s Colt .45 Gold Cup and Beretta 92F, and drove up