Quotes from Lee Goldberg

She's suffered much worse than that," Duncan said. "Take a good, hard look at her." All heads turned to Eve. "She's only twenty-six years old. She's bruised, scarred, and filled with bird shot. How many times has she been in the hospital in the last five months? How many of her bones has she broken? She's paying a steep price for her bad decisions and is too arrogant and self-destructive to realize it.

That's what Lipitor is for," he said as they reached the Explorer. She opened the driver's-side door. "I'll be sure to remember that line for your eulogy. It will get a big laugh.

She was a middle-aged white woman with big cheeks—front and rear—

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 whole city is a carefully constructed lie built on greed.

Well hell, glad to be of service to our community," Orkett said and smiled at Eve. "Is it true a crooked deputy shot you, threw you off a cliff, and you climbed back out and shot him?

Scarlett Johansson?" Orkett said. They all looked at him. He shrugged. "She would be a surprise, that's all I'm saying." "Here's a surprise," Eve said. "So is the Malibu Sniper." "How do you know?" Orkett asked.

No offense, but there have been enough cop shows about white, middle-aged, male homicide detectives. But we're going to stay honest to your reality." Simone glanced at Eve. "Especially yours.

Because it was a tool of death," she said, "and this is a place of purity, peace, and harmony.

Today it's just a wound. It takes a long time before you realize it's become a scar.

Clay broke out in a big grin, and I realized he'd make a terrific black Santa Claus and, with the political correctness and diversity thing being trendy at the time, I thought it might even be a money-making idea for him. But I kept the idea to myself, not sure if it'd be taken as some kind of racist jab. You can't be too sure these days.

said he had a "unique artistic vision," which wasn't exactly a lie. His vision just happened to be shit.

The mission was founded in 1776 to proselytize the Indians, 5000 of whom succumbed to a measles epidemic brought by the same people who came to save them from their heathen ways.

Because Zena is irrational and unreasonable, that's obvious from what she wrote. She's not going to listen to me. But she'd listen to Kim.

Ian believed that all actors were crazy. They had to be if they were any good. The truly great ones had to have a manageable version of split personality disorder. How else could they pretend to be someone else so fully that we not only believe it but we invest ourselves emotionally in what they are experiencing?

If you really want to purify people, dispense hand sanitizer

I didn't say Zena pulled the trigger, but Kim's murder is still on her. She thrives on generating hate. You could spend the rest of your life talking to her enemies.

writers instinctively tried to generate plots from events around them as a means of survival, the way a pigeon is always searching for food, pecking at everything in sight. A spy lacked the imagination or the drive for that kind of free-association creativity.

Nobody would ever take the time to analyze forensic evidence in the theft of frozen Jimmy Dean sausages from an office break room.

when foreigners used American profanity. The swear words always seemed too big to fit in their mouths and were spit out rather than spoken, like a glob of tough meat they couldn't chew and didn't dare try to swallow.

Mr. Monk, Please" I whispered. "We're in a church". "We're in hot zone for disease" Mr Monk Said "Someone's got to save these people

not that anyone was actually keeping one.

His father taught him that standing up for what you believe in comes with a price but that backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying.

You look like you just gave a hobbit a hand job.

Duncan said, "Unless it's an actor, rapper, or politician who gets shot.