"You ever notice that sometimes the bad guys are better people than the good guys?" (26)

"So clients weren't perfect. So being a private cop wasn't perfect. So life wasn't perfect. I could always get new cards printed up. They would say: Elvis Cole, Perfect Detective." (28)

"'She's very good in bed. Everyone says so.'
There were no posters on the walls or record albums on the floor or clothes spilling out of a hamper or diet soda cans or anything at all that would mark the room as sixteen-year old girl's." (48)

"The Hagakure is Japan. It is the heart and the spirit of the people. It defines how we act and what we believe and what is right and what is wrong and how we live and how we die. It is who we are." (56)

"Every shot had been within two inches of center. He was delighted. You...