“That could be a very sexy story.”

“But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.”

“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...”

“When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.”

“That could be a very sexy story.”

“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.”