Quotes from Max Allan Collins

Rick: Can you swim? Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim if the occasion calls for it. Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1913–1921. President during World War I, only President to be interred within Washington, DC, at the National Cathedral.

To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working. - Earl Warren

Fiction is largely the process of writers solving problems of their own creation.

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr.

People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?

Zigzag... don't bunch up. Weave like a drunk on New Year's... Got it?

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace.

Is that where you took care of him? In a restroom?" "No. I walked him out to the runway and threw him in front of a Boeing.

She couldn't stop herself from grinning back at

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion." Gerald R. Ford, thirty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1974–1977. The

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. - Potter Stewart

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well the suspicious. - Hugo L. Black

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Inside my head, I shit my pants.

People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?" Audie Murphy, most decorated soldier of World War II, Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock.

One day you're breaking hearts, and then you blink and it's decades gone and your heart attacks you.

It's about this girl who was married three times and was still a virgin. Know how she managed that? First she married a midget, see, and he was too small. Next she married a preacher, and he was too religious. Then she married a small-town cop, and he couldn't find it.

The longer we're alive, the more friends —- and adversaries —- we create, and collect. - Jim Brass

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.