If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.
You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.
Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.
There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.
The Moon shows us only one side of its face and there is no man on Earth who can succeed this! Every man's other face has its time to be seen!
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social can have existence only through mentality.
They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
Linde's Danger to Self is a warm, candid and appealing account of being an emergency room psychiatrist. Linde captures the non-conformist, hard-boiled style of the psychiatrists who work in this setting.