You can get away with a bad decision, but not a bad mistake.
When you’re dealing with people who have no moral center, no loyalty to anyone but themselves, you don’t always get the logical results you expect, or the truth that you paid for.
When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
When Jack Colby first came aboard The Maine looking for a job, wearing a T-shirt that said: Wounded Combat Vet—Some Reassembly Required
Well, sonny, in my country, gun control means using both hands.
Thoreau’s philosophy: If you read about one train wreck, you’ve read about them all.
They brought with them seventeen American POWs who were secretly imprisoned in Villa Marista for advanced experiments with drugs. It was hard to imagine being taken prisoner in Vietnam, tortured there...
The air was so thick with testosterone that the wallpaper was getting soggy.
She asked me, Was your divorce nasty? Not at all. The marriage was nasty.
Buck next brought up the subject of the
One can be a product only of one’s own era, not anyone else’s.
I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, What’s the definition of a moderate Arab? I don’t know. A guy who ran out of ammunition.
A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.
The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
If he were honest with himself, he’d understand that his hate was, in fact, a form of respect. You don’t bother to hate what you think is contemptible.
There were two display windows, one on each side of the door, and in the windows were…well, books. What this street really needed was a bar.
There is no harder worker than a former government employee who has discovered the word incentive.
Survival is a strong instinct, surrender is not an option, and all combat is justifiable homicide. But you pay a price.
I’m trying to modify my NYPD piggishness. I have not hit on one single—or married—female in the ATTF. I was actually getting a reputation as a man who was either devoted to duty, or was devoted to som...
It’s a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down.