Quotes from Max Allan Collins

A crime of violence against one of us is a crime of violence against all of us.

Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble.

Eyes Only is more than just a voice and eyes on some cable hack...it's more like a network. People who help Eyes Only, they're all loyal, and they don't talk to anybody about anything, if you're not one of them.

Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have to spray your fucking brains against the wall, too? Thanks!

they maybe didn't deserve respect, exactly, but I knew enough to give them some.

and Chelsea boots, and moved

He strode over and I followed him, feeling like a bodyguard. Gregory stayed planted where he was, like Lot's wife after she got a good look.

So, yeah—I suppose I've done some bad things in my life. But I just can't see myself as a fucking pornographer.

Of course, if my callers last night were supposed to get in touch with Ash, after killing me, he might be a little on edge, since the only way he might have heard from those guys since last night was if he'd been to a séance.

Evelyn : You were actually at Hamunaptra? Rick : Yeah, I was there. Evelyn : You swear? Rick : Every damn day.

She shook her head. 'We may be a small town, Detective Jackson, but we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Different eras—like us. John Philpot Curran, Irish judge and orator?" She just stared at him. "I'm paraphrasing," Reeder said, "but in essence, Curran said the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

background. Nancy had an antique brass bed. I had the feeling these girls weren't two of a kind. Meanwhile, I was going through things. The name she was using here was Glenna Cole, but I found identification cards of various sorts in several other names. The

And may he be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows he's dead." Standing

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-Fifth President of the United States of America, former senator and representative from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Section 45, Grid U-35, Arlington National Cemetery.

Krista worked up her best smile, public servant that she was, used to dealing with unreasonable citizens.

Somehow a group of middle-aged men had transformed themselves into the immature kids they'd been back in their college days.

Our basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

late, too, just so you know. Both took off a while ago, maybe half an hour 'fore you got here." "All right," Caine said, "now it's

Seeing him with Mom in his eyes and no sadness there at all. Maybe that was why everybody liked nostalgia. It was the past with only the good parts left in.

for work these days; nobody had been hired in janitorial

most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-Fifth President of the United States of America, former senator and representative from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Section 45, Grid U-35, Arlington National Cemetery.

grasping at straws is the only way to find a needle in a haystack.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power." James Madison, fourth President of the United States of America. Served 1809–1817. Known as the "Father of the Constitution" for contributions to the drafting of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.