“My motto? Dont trust someone who is just as cagey as yourself." "What kind of detective are you? A lousy one and proud of it. I write, remember? She looked down at her hand & laughed. Berretta does...”

“That could be a very sexy story.”

“But thats the thing about dead people: they cant warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Never Give up, never surrender.”

“Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes: - Raker CAN piss into the wind. - Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross -- just never his own. - Superman wears Raker paj...”

“There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.”