The moral beatings that people took from their children, I was thinking, were the hardest to endure and the… — Ross Macdonald

"You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?"

"I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people."

Money costs too much.

When your income passes a certain point you lose touch. All of a sudden the other people look like geeks or gooks, expendables.