hadn’t struck him at the time. Everything was familiar – the setting, the faces, even the movements of the people involved – so familiar that he had stopped paying attention.
“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.”
― The Untouchable
― The Untouchable
“Play with murder enough and it gets you one of two ways. It makes you sick, or you get to like it.”
― Red Harvest
― 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.”
― The Untouchable
― 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.)”
― Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author
― Animal Planet: revised edition with a new afterword by the author
“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
― Lakota Woman
― Lakota Woman
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