Eugene Bogorad > Eugene's Quotes

“Handguns were in-room weapons. Under expert control in high-pressure situations the average range for a successful engagement was about eleven feet.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“I'm a rich man. To have everything you need is the definition of affluence.”
― Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow

“I'm not afraid of death. Death's afraid of me.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

“Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn’t live there. He lived in a world where you don’t start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don’t lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren’t yet.”
― Lee Child, Worth Dying For

“An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”
― Lee Child

“Imagine the uproar if the Federal government tried to make everyone wear a radio transmitter around their neck so we can keep track of their movements. But people happily carry their cell phones in their purses and pockets.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man

“A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.”
― Lee Child, A Wanted Man