“Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.”

“Much later, while I was recovering from being shot, I realized that the hunt for the last great Nazi war criminal had started because of a hunch I’d gotten while reading the newspaper.”

“World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.”

“There wasn't any food or heat, but we had light, and places to sit, and a complete lack of frightening murderers, and that turned out to be enough for now.”

“Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.”

“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.”

“On the third Wednesday of every month I'd visit fat Dr. Pinski, an old demoralized psychiatrist who couldn't have spotted a suicide if the malcontent's errant bullet ricocheted off his desk and grazed him with a flesh wound. And chances are it would be a flesh wound, cuz he was packing. Flesh. Lots of it too.”