Randy Striker > Quotes

“When people tie up with a cause—any damn cause—the first thing they forfeit is their desire to relate to others outside their cause. Whether the cause is right or wrong, human understanding becomes a casualty. And without understanding, people can get dangerous. Damn dangerous. I”
― Randy Striker, The Deadlier Sex

“They live a random existence without a love of truth and without a code of personal honor. They can rationalize any act, any deed, because they believe the only law they must embrace is public law. Anything that won’t get them arrested—or get them a stern warning from their preacher—must be all right.”
― Randy Striker, Everglades Assault

“credit card upon demand. The commercials tell you they’re the key to financial freedom. In truth, they’re plastic rungs on the ladder into debt.”
― Randy Striker, Everglades Assault

“They were just a mindless few among the hundreds of thousands who move through this life selfishly and stupidly.”
― Randy Striker, Everglades Assault

“We had had our time together. It was not a matter of quantity, but of quality. One year or a hundred years—the mathematics of it made no difference. The essence of human emotion should wear no timepiece, because you can live neither in the past nor the future.”
― Randy Striker, Assassin's Shadow

“One vast and meaningless blood sport that encouraged the chaos it supposedly fought?”
― Randy Striker, Grand Cayman Slam

“Two strangers alone, we had entered the clumsy, uncomfortable time of prospective lovers—uncomfortable because we have all seen it rehearsed again and again on a million television screens. You find yourself sliding into the practiced routines of the buxomed starlets and the square-jawed heros, so that even the honest gesture of affection begins to ring untrue. So I was content to steer Sniper toward a pretty little harbor I knew—a deepwater retreat within the confines of a pine-swept island called Punta Blanco. I did not put my arm around her, nor did she lay her head on my shoulder, but there was still the physical awareness, the deep wanting—yet we were both content to simply ride and enjoy the night.”
― Randy Striker, Assassin's Shadow