Quotes from Lee Goldberg

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Spinelessness was the lack of the inner strength to endure the anguish or pain required to overcome a major obstacle or a difficult challenge.

He had plump, rosy cheeks and a thin beard that looked like it had been drawn on his round, chubby face with a Sharpie to indicate that he actually had a chin.

Instead, you let your massive ego get in the way. You wanted center stage, the spotlight on you, over everything else, even if staying behind the curtain would have ultimately been in your best interest.

someone whose idea of exercise was walking into McDonald's rather than using the drive-through.

Mulholland Drive is a two-lane, serpentine road that runs along the crest of the mountains and is named after the guy who built a two-hundred-mile aqueduct to drain water from the Northern California delta down to Los Angeles just so developers could get rich building homes in a place that otherwise is inhospitable to human life.

The bar had the ambiance of a Chevron station mini-mart and the odor of someone deep-frying fish in a men's locker room.

Eve was sure he was saluted at birth by the obstetrician instead of spanked.

They use the term 'ripped from the headlines' for their stories because it sounds a lot better than 'plagiarized from the New York Times because we have no imagination.

The pictures were the only items in the file that weren't complete fiction.

The driver's licenses weren't the only things that had RFID chips in them. These days almost everything did, from breakfast cereal boxes to key chains.

The only thing less secure than airplane Wi-Fi is running naked through Compton holding all of your money, jewelry, and credit cards in a baggie.

This is humor: A Japanese woman experiences discomfort in her eye, so she goes to see a qualified ophthalmologist. After a thorough examination, the doctor tells the Japanese woman that she has a cataract. She says, 'No, I don't. I have a Lincoln Continental.

The Cutting Board was a dimly lit wood-paneled steak house with booths upholstered in red leather. The air in the restaurant was stagnant and heavy with the smell of cigars, garlic, butter, and burning beef. The ambience was so masculine that infertile men could increase their sperm count just by walking in the door.

His bet was wrong. The reason was that the signal from the helmet cameras was being intentionally distorted at the source.

If you have to tell someone you're powerful and famous, then either you aren't or you're embarrassingly insecure.

Ian had always suspected that the happiest day of a survivalist's life would be the one when the world ended. Now he knew it was true.

Get the United States to start a war so they won't intrude in yours.

He was a clean-cut man in his fifties who appeared so wholesome that Ian was sure he could pass as a high school teacher, a Mormon missionary, or the reliable love interest in one of those Hallmark Channel movies.

Nipples are a fact of life. We all have them.

The bad guys are whoever it is who think they are better than everybody else. This world needs to be turned upside down.

I like that you're confident but not overconfident," Duncan said. "Smart people are the ones who know how stupid they are.

We come to teach you a lesson, boy," Shitkicker #1 said, standing to Straker's right. "It's we've come," Straker said. "Now I've just taught you a lesson.

This is a crazy world, Margo. Maybe you need t o be a little crazy to see it.