Larry Carr

“I shall be seventy-two this year. Impossible to believe. Inside, an eternal twenty-two. I suppose that is how it is for everybody old.”
― John Banville, The Untouchable

“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

“The Stoics denied the concept of progress. There might be a little advance here, some improvement there—cosmology in their time, dentistry in ours—but in the long run the balance of things, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joy and misery, remains constant.”
― John Banville, The Untouchable

“And Hollywood did what Hollywood does best–it decided against a Disney adaptation of my novel because they thought it might make them look “anti-zoo” (I kid you not.)”
― Scott Bradfield, Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author