“Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck.”
“I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me… but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.”
“I thought about all the times I had brought in black witches, pitying them for their foolishness, telling myself demons were dangerous, manipulating bastards who you couldn’t beat. But I wasn’t trying to beat them, I was trying to join them…apparently.”
“Was it just her, or did lovers look more adoringly at each other in this city? Especially in the springtime.'Die, bastards.'She sighed. It wasn't their fault that they were bastards who should die.”
“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
“Luck is the bastard child of Fate and Destiny.”