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

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.

I get through some print.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

The more children there are in the world, the more the world is filled with imagination.

As long as it makes you happy. For the rest of my life, I will do whatever it takes to ensure it. As my wife, you will not want for anything. What you desire, I will provide.

I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

You're so full of it, darlin'.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.