8 Quotes by Sean Black

...if you're rich in this country you'll be treated a little differently from the rest of us. not because you're rich -- hell, with a jury that might work against you -- but because you can pay for a better defense....

but doing something and it being proved in a court of law, well, those were two different things.

...When you try to impose your will on human nature it can make things worse rather than better.

She smiled at him, that same look of shared understanding, then reached in again to touch his hand, pinching his palm between her thumb and index finger. 'You OK?''I could be on fire, but seeing you would make it all OK,' he replied, his voice as brittle as a three-pack-a-day smoker.

The law was an institution that moved slowly. Apprehension, ascertaining the truth: these took time. And the law was reactive. First a crime had to be committed. In the military, and now in the private sector, you couldn't wait for something to happen. By then it was too late.

Like his partner, Lock believed that the more prepared you were, the less likely you'd be called upon to use a weapon. It wasn't so much the deterrent factor as some glitch in the cosmos that seemed to dictate that the one time you weren't carrying was the one time you'd need your gun.

There were people who could tell from the size of a print whether it was a man or a woman, how heavy they were, how fast they were going, and all sorts of other shit like what they'd eaten for breakfast.

...You ever been at a military base when the brass are visiting, or worse, the President? The place is unrecognizable. Everything they want the VIP to see is out front and center, and everything they don't want them to see gets squirreled away until they've gone. It's just human nature.