“Sorry to hear about your Dad."He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him.""Heart attack?""He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.”

“Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter.”

“She nodded, taking his pistol and showing him the button to release the empty clip.“Where did you learn how to shoot?” he asked.“I teach high school.”

“You know, you remind me of my younger brother. I miss that kid, so much that I sometimes regret killing him.”

“Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead.This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.”

“Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.”

“We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.”