John Culuris

“The past is like a club and you can only hit yourself in the head with it so many times before there is serious and permanent damage.”
― Michael Connelly, The Last Coyote

“It’s all very well to have your eight suspects parading in their endless ring-around-the-rosebush outside the library. That’s fine. But give some sensible reason why they were there. If you must shower the room with bus tickets, provide a reason for that too. In other words, construct your story. Your present problem is not to explain the villainy of the guilty: it’s to explain the stupidity of the innocent.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Door To Doom And Other Detections

“What is jealousy but a reflection of your own failures?”
― Michael Connelly, The Last Coyote

“We aren’t angels. Angels couldn’t breathe the air down here. They’d die.”
― James Sallis, The Long-Legged Fly