quotes about Superior Man

“You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.”

“My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.”

“The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about nuns and birdwatchers and cats who solve crimes. Overseas, my books are reviewed alongside those of authors like Robert Stone and Don DeLillo, and I have to live and die by that comparison. They don't ghettoize crime writers in other countries, and of course they shouldn't.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

“All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.”

“Have I done more for some today ? Than some have done for me ? If a person can answer yes at the end of a day, then that person has had a good day.”

“Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?”

“Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.”

“He who lives among dogs must learn to pant.”

“Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.”

“If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries”