“Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.”

“We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.”

“He had worked out long ago that police officers evaluated a citizen on thebasis of three factors—his appearance, his occupation, and the way hespoke; according to this assessment, a citizen in a police station wouldeither be treated with respect or despised and beaten.”

“We get along by a symbiotic adjustment of habits and with a minimum of that pale-mauve hostility you often find among women.”

“Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.”

“Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.”