Quotes by A. Lee Martinez

“He hasn't earned your your mercy."Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given.”

“Death should take more care with his paperwork.”

“A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.”

“When you cross over into the weird stuff, there's no going back. Hector has a theory on it. Calls it the law of 'Anomalous Phenomena Attraction.' He explained it to me once. Didn't really pay atten...”

“We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie.”

“Judy went back to Paulies place, but either he wasnt home or he wasnt answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided shed probably have to fin...”

“But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window”

“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”

“Rockwood didn't have a movie theater or an IHOP or a strip mall. But it did have two churches, a ramshackle bar, and last (but certainly not least) Wacky Willie's Deluxe Goofy Golf, a barren landsc...”

“I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. Wh...”

“He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.”

“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a d...”

“She stopped shrieking after a moment. It wasn't the crazy looks she drew from the other pedestrians that made her stop. And her damaged sanity hadn't managed to repair itself. She'd left something ...”

“Judy went back to Paulie’s place, but either he wasn’t home or he wasn’t answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided she’d probably have to...”