John Bonner

“Now I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can. Otherwise there’d be no sense to it. That’s the fix I am in. I don’t know anything else, don’t enjoy anything else, don’t want to know or enjoy anything else. You can’t weight that against any sum of money. Money’s good stuff. I haven’t anything against it.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”
― René Descartes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
― Frederic Bastiat