14 quotes
Folks always believe their own racism is the result of divine inspiration, incontestably valid.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
When you consider the possibility of wizards being involved in anything, the smart thing to do is to assume the worst.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
If you ask me, the difference between a hero and a coward is that a hero find some damn-fool way to con himself into going ahead instead of doing the sensible thing.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
And I love what money does to you humans. It’s the only thing that saves you from being totally tedious.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
But somewhere along the way he had made up his mind and set it in concrete. Changed circumstances would not budge him.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
Slick, Garrett. Remind me not to get on your wrong side. You’re so slick you’d slide uphill.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
I have a statistic I want you to consider, Garrett. Of all the guys who have loved her, only one is still alive.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
“Kayean and I used to walk up here at night to, uh…”
“In a graveyard?”
“Nothing like tombstones to remind you how little time you have for the finer things in life.”
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
There is no way to get your health back. You live on memories of what was and fantasies about what might have been. Both can be deadly to the man who loses sight of the demarcation between them and reality.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
I jumped up, seized the moment by the scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority of their overlords, the Marines.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
She made no effort to peel herself from me. I thought about pushing her away—sometime next week.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
I got a little too intense. He backed off and gave me the look you give the nut on the corner preaching that pixies are the secret masters and if we don’t do something they’re going to run off with our sisters and daughters.
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)
“I’m beginning to wonder if we ought not to re-examine your diet, Morley. Such unrelenting pessimism must have some deficiency at its base.”
“The only deficiencies bothering me are of good luck, financial wherewithal, and female companionship.”
Sweet Silver Blues (1987)