106 Quotes by Greg Iles

You know, the truth isn’t hard to find, if you’re willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They’re afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.

But as my mother always said: You never know what’s cooking in someone else’s pot.

Don’t keep a girl guessing too long, or she’ll find the answer somewhere else.

We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the most difficult human art. It requires seeing all things at once, forward and backward, the way God sees.

A man’s biggest enemy is his mouth.

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It’s a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

See Spot run!? is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.

Men fantasize about wanton women, but when they meet one, they’re paralyzed by fear.