Andrew Johnson

“was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal. Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“mostly I just threw the insurance forms in the garbage and slept in the bathroom. Always in the handicapped stall. It was clean, spacious, and down at the end of the row against the wall so you couldn’t have guys shitting against you on two fronts. Like my grandmother said, “In the bedroom and the bathroom, never get outflanked.” I was six years old. God she was a pig.”
― Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel

“That’s the problem with hitting the elites financially. Every time you hurt one, all it does is make another richer. That won’t stop until the baskets overflow with their godsdamned heads.”
― Matt Dinniman, A Parade of Horribles

“Two angels and a devil had tumbled into the water. Three angels came up. Forgiveness, then, was possible even for the worst.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires