Quotes from Ed McBain

We need leaders who can reflect theologically and help develop more robust thinking that understands how context affects our understanding of God, humankind, the fall, and redemption.

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.

that was April

Sex offenders were the least-respected convicts in any prison society; if a violator of Article 130 could have pretended that he was an ax murderer instead, or an arsonist, or a man who had filled a ditch with fourteen poisoned wives, he'd have preferred that to entering the prison as a sex offender.

Georgie's grandfather had been born in Italy, and lived in America for five years before he got his citizenship papers, at which time he could rightfully be called an Italian-American. In Georgie's eyes, this was the only time the hyphenate could be used properly. His parents had been born here of Italian-American parents, but this did not make them similarly Italian-Americans, it made them simply Americans

What was the name of the band?" Carella said. "I don't think it had a name. It was a pickup band." "It had a leader, didn't it?" "Well, he wasn't exactly a leader. Not the type anybody would want to be taken to, if you follow me.

Homicide at its best stinks to high heaven because everyone walking this earth has a closet he'd prefer leaving closed and homicide rarely knocks before entering.

They were running out of suspects and into dead ends. They were running into airtight alibis and out of patience. They were running up one-way alleys and phone bills. They were running down a killer who did not yet exist. They were running around in circles.

newspapers over his face.

I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

The weekend is not a good time for dying, you should never die anytime between Friday evening and Monday morning. Wednesday is the best day for dying except in some towns in Connecticut where even the barber shops are closed on Wednesday.

Some kid was shoving muggles. Marijuana, Dad. We call it—" "I know the names," Byrnes said.

purse, was steady.

why was Weeks virtually

Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.

Any new corpses today?" "None yet." "Pity. I'm getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.

Sarcasm is a weapon of the intellectual

The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.

We got enough champagne here to start a France.

Drugs and stealing go together like bagels and lox.

These women never cut the umbilical cord. We get raised by one woman, and then when we're ripe, we get turned over to another woman.

As a matter of fact, if either of the two men were Buckingham or Ovid or Byron, they might have respectively realized that "love is the salt of life," and "the perpetual source of fears and anxieties," and "a capricious power"—but they weren't poets, they

It's not an exclamation point. There are no interjections in mathematics.

There are all kinds of feathers. There are chicken feathers, and duck feathers, and quail feathers, and goose feathers, and flamingo feathers, and horse feathers, and even Leonard Feathers.