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.

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

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

I get through some print.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

We create ourselves endlessly.

The decision was too important to make lightly without more prayer.

I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.

But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.

I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.

Perhaps that is what love is -- the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

I think that villains who are just brawn, muscles and weapons are boring. So I always try to find intelligence in my villains and also a sense of humor whenever that is possible.

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.