Book: Firestarter

New Yorkers have an unwritten rule: mind your own business and don't mess with other people's.

He did not know how to hide his arrogance well and did not hide at all the pleasure that he could push someone around.

In not-so-distant Washington, D.C., another year of chicanery, gossip and insinuation, and the usual air of showmanship generated by national television, a system of elaborate leaks, and thick fog that diehards know how to let in, was winding down.

If you can't get your way under the guise of foreign aid, send troops with light machine guns and napalm.

With safes - as with women: you just need to have the time and the necessary tools. There are hard nuts, there are fragile ones, but there are none that cannot be cracked.

The cinema advertised two films at once: Corpsemen and Bloody

Inside the web-covered recess were four ceramic jugs filled with a clear, slightly oily liquid - 100% moonshine - Granter called it a stroke.

John Rainbird was a peace-loving man. He was at peace with almost everyone - with Cap, the Office, the United States. At peace with God, Satan and the universe.

Nothing irreparable happened. It was the motto of his life imprinted in his heart as an absolute truth.

If you do not tell everything to the priest, then you will not be washed in the blood of Christ and you will end up in a place where they are burning in fire.

She did not like to think about it, but the memory came by itself, there is no escape from the memory.

What has been done once can be repeated.

Full speed ahead, and the stragglers - to hell.

A large moon, resembling a silver dollar, floated between the piles of clouds; the wind drove them along this dark airy river like gilded boats. The moonlight reflected in the windows of the buildings, making them look like dull, unpleasant eyes.