Quotes from John Sandford

TV. It's like if you're not on it, you don't exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.

looking back at him

Honestly? I'm happy I went to a Catholic school," Lucas said, as he did a U-turn in traffic, looking over his shoulder. "Got a decent education and developed a dirty mind, which is one of the unstated benefits of a Catholic education. My women friends have greatly appreciated that.

The Embassy Suites in Des Moines was of the architectural style known as 20th Century Hotel Unremarkable, a large beige building apparently designed not to piss anybody off, except maybe the local aesthetes.

A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In the past, a number of species have gone extinct before they achieved interstellar flight because of that damage, usually through runaway biological warfare or atomic warfare, with its consequent radiation poisoning.

He called St. Vincent back and asked if he

sixty miles north of Bluestem, as the crow flies, or eighty miles, if the crow were driving a pickup.

don't have them all, yet.

I talked to Sandra Burton a few minutes ago, and she said Grace was a little crazy back then, always

Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.

He wasn't a big fan of actual blood. He wanted submission, and sex, and . . . admiration? Well, fear, anyway. Respect.

Take a while to find all that out, but I won't lose any

The more he worked around the PPPI, the more he got the feeling that he was onto something. People were lying to him, misdirecting him. He couldn't exactly put a finger on why he thought that, but he'd learned the hard way not to ignore even unsupported intuition.

other story. The drawings have gotta

Dannon had tried to catch her eye, but she'd resolutely moved on to the next Important Person.

around the pistol grip of the M-15.

He won't. He'll want to be out front on this, he'll want to be informed. If he does say no, I'll call him. I'll tell him that I'll personally stick the search warrant up his ass and then cut him out of the loop on the return." "You're so grandmotherly sometimes," Lucas said.

the police don't stop crime; they simply record it, and sometimes they catch the people who do it.

It's more important to look good, than to feel good," Lucas said. "What?" "Never mind. Before your time," Lucas said.

CNN had a story, but like a lot of CNN stuff, most of it seemed to have been garbled by a mentally challenged paranoiac;

We got all the big brains working on a reaction, but I'm telling you, there's no way we can no. Not with those kids on the swing set. I suspect they're about to produce a vid of her breast-feeding the little fuckin' crotchfruit.

phone, then picked it up and put it in

Why do crazy people have guns?" Coil asked. "You'd know the answer to that better than I would, Senator," Lucas said.

Lucas kicked back in his chair, and thought, Let's go to Sherlock Holmes. When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever was left, however improbable, must be the truth. Or something like that.