Let it Ride channels Elmore Leonard at the height of his powers, with dialogue Quentin Tarantino would kill for.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour.

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

I get through some print.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.

We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

I'm interested in the poetry of reality.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

The Bible says that God uses the foolish things and the base things of the world to accomplish His work. He apparently uses the tone deaf of the world to do something too.

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Progress means nothing to presence.