Quotes from John Sandford

Somewhere along the line, it occurred to him that he hadn't spoken to Virgil Flowers. He'd probably taken the day off, and knowing Flowers, he'd done it in a boat. The thing about Flowers was, in Lucas's humble opinion, you could send him out for a loaf of bread and he'd find an illegal bread cartel smuggling in heroin-saturated wheat from Afghanistan. Either that, or he'd be fishing in a muskie tournament, on government time. You had to keep an eye on him.

First she got Jesus, probably fifteen years ago, and that didn't work out, so she tried Scientology, and that didn't help, but it cost a lot of money, so she tried Buddhism and yoga, and those didn't work, so she started drinking. I think that helped, because she's still drinking.

So she made no secret about being gay?" "Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.

If the AG had been a lightbulb instead of a lawyer, he would have been about a twenty-watt.

When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird.

They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident.

The thing about Botox is that when you've had too much, you then have to fake reactions just to look human--and it's impossible to distinguish real fake reactions from fake fake reactions.

Nuts don't come in bunches. Only grapes do.

Fuck golf anyway. Stupid goddamn game, chasing a ball around a perfectly good cow pasture.

Her Pan-Cake makeup was cracking like a dried-out Dakota lake bed.

Flowers said, "I got two bottles of water in the car." "Get them. And get your gun," Lucas said. "The gun? You think?" "No. I just like to see you wearing the fuckin' gun for a change," Lucas said. "C'mon, let's get moving.

If there were honorary degrees for assholes, he'd be a doctor of everything," Lily said.

The press conference was held in a courtroom at the new county courthouse, a space that did its best to translate justice into laminated wood.

Cinnamon Girl" wasn't right for this day, for this time, for what was about to happen. If he were to have music, he thought, maybe Shostakovich, a few measures from the Lyric Waltz in Jazz Suite Number 2. Something sweet, yet pensive, with a taste of tragedy; Qatar was an intellectual, and he knew his music.

I'll bring pajamas " she said. "Yeah? You have any idea how old I am?" "Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight.

Detective Virgil and Barlow [bomb-technician] arranged to meet at the Starbucks. Virgil got a grande hot chocolate, no-fat milk, no foam, no whipped cream, and Barlow got a venti latte with an extra shot. As they took a corner table, Virgil said, "Remind me not to stand next to you if you're handling a bomb. That much caffeine, you gotta be shakin' like a hundred-dollar belly dancer." "At least I'm not drinking like a little girl," Barlow said.

Even thinking was hard.

Lucas's position was supine: that is, whenever he heard people arguing about it, he wanted to lie down and take a nap.

there are as many nuts on the left as there are on the right, and in the long run, the lefties are probably more dangerous.

Carol Druze Was A Stone Killer.

When I was reporting crime... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart.

When you're writing two books a year, you really need some time off and don't want to use that down time for touring. I do like talking with readers, though; they can tell you important stuff.

Before the Internet became so powerful, I toured extensively. With the rise of the Internet, touring apparently has become less important.

Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.