162 Quotes by Don Winslow

And the most dangerous place on earth – Is where you’re safe.

Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution.

The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don’t say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending.

Deliver my soul from the sword. My love from the power of the dog.

Life, he muses, always gives you an excuse to take what you want anyway.

When the devil comes, he comes on angel’s wings.

In America, everything is about systems,” Barrera said. “In Mexico, everything is about personal relationships.

The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither. And.

If the world played fair, he’d play fair. But the cards are stacked against the prosecutors and police. Miranda, Mapp, all the other Supreme Court decisions, give the advantage to the skels.