Prince of Thieves

Even if a thing is doomed—there is that moment of absurd hope that is worth the fall, that is worth everything.

Thinking about drinking now was like fantasizing about the perfect crime. How he would do it—if he were going to do it.

I'm a fucking porcupine with points.

At root, the business of baseball was no better or different from the movies or from church: put on a show, promise people something transcendent, and then bleed the suckers dry.

He was backing away behind cover fire with the engaged smile of a teenager seeing his violent daydreams come true.

nine times out of ten, romance is a problem, not a solution.