Quotes from Brian Garfield

Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.

Everybody lived like a character in a one-act play that nobody understood; getting by from one moment to the next was like trying to hold on to your hat in a gusty wind.

I scowled. "Attu has been of utterly no importance to anybody since May 1943. Is this your version of sending me to Siberia? What are my transgressions?

You've been there before?" "Twenty-odd years ago on the U-2 program." Ross was intrigued; he's still a collegiate at heart — young enough to be eager-beaverish. "What's it like up there?" "The end of the world.

It was a crude destructive attack without any of the clandestine finesse that usually characterized warfare in our field — it was as if someone had decided to conclude a game of chess by blasting all the pieces off the board with a fire hose.

The longer he spent in the apartment the more terrifying the outside world became. He