I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge.

I'd been so fascinated by the notion, that I'd forgotten to measure what it was bringing forth. I'd been asleep, dreaming.

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time.

Digital fit” should be first defined as “mind fit, ” and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.

Somehow, we each create our own prisons, one for which only we, hold the key.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.

People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.