Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life, ” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.

Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?""The company of a friend, I think.""Always a cheap treat.

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.

Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Nobody tells me f-k all!