“a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.”

“The key to excellent report writing' he said between chews, 'is to take every bit of passion out of it. Use an extra heaping portion of superflously extraneous tautological redundancies in order to make it mind-numbingly boring. So that when one's superior officers read it, they zone out and start skimming and maybe don't notice the fact that one has been spinning one's wheels since the body turned up and hasn't solved a goddamn thing.”

“Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.”

“Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.”

“A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)”

“His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)”

“Too many cases thrown out of court, too much pop-psycho crap, satanic bullshit... if you FEEL you've been abused, you HAVE been!”