That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It...
DENNIS LEHANE I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffe...
DENNIS LEHANE I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
DENNIS LEHANE Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happin...
DENNIS LEHANE Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
DENNIS LEHANE I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes,...
DENNIS LEHANE One that society can't forgive, but I can.
DENNIS LEHANE She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...
DENNIS LEHANE And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. T...
DENNIS LEHANE I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, ...
DENNIS LEHANE Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus.
DENNIS LEHANE This terrible smallness of men was bigger than him, bigger than anything.
DENNIS LEHANE Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosag...
DENNIS LEHANE But Curtis had come to the table with something they’d never expected, something they would have t...
DENNIS LEHANE He was done with every lie he'd ever allowed himself to believe, every lie he'd ever lived, every li...
DENNIS LEHANE I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you'r...
DENNIS LEHANE There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.
DENNIS LEHANE Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage w...
DENNIS LEHANE I had a 97 mile-an-hour fast ball, and I couldn't hit the plate. Like Nuke LaLoosh.
DENNIS LEHANE an inner-city, working-class kid.
DENNIS LEHANE Jimmy would judge all patience tests against that first night in Deer Island [Prison], ... He would ...
DENNIS LEHANE Dave has a moment when he's young where he tries to talk to his mother, who just shuts him down, ......
DENNIS LEHANE In the Flats, half the people didn't have lawns, and the fences sagged, ... When you wanted to party...
DENNIS LEHANE [The novel represented a big step for the author, too.] Coming from the world I was in, writing very...
DENNIS LEHANE A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a...
DENNIS LEHANE But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would ...
DENNIS LEHANE When a child disappears, the space she’d occupied is immediately filled with dozens of people. And...
DENNIS LEHANE Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
DENNIS LEHANE Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...
DENNIS LEHANE I’m alone,” Angie had told me a month ago.

“No, you’re not.”

“You...
DENNIS LEHANE the other side of his desk. “Yeah, well, like I always say, miss, you could
DENNIS LEHANE People surprise you sometimes.
DENNIS LEHANE The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorne...
DENNIS LEHANE And that’s when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a...
DENNIS LEHANE You’ve mislaid your trust in the past, had your faith in people broken, shattered even. You’ve b...
DENNIS LEHANE Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had a...
DENNIS LEHANE Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell y...
DENNIS LEHANE She should have a ride named after her at Epcot, man.
DENNIS LEHANE We all have our crosses to bear.
DENNIS LEHANE Grief,” he said, “is carnivorous. It feeds whether you’re awake or not, whether you fight it o...
DENNIS LEHANE Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.
DENNIS LEHANE Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
DENNIS LEHANE Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want ...
DENNIS LEHANE The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled wit...
DENNIS LEHANE It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.
DENNIS LEHANE ...someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.
DENNIS LEHANE She felt like weeping. She didn't know why at first, but then it hit her.

He knew her. DENNIS LEHANE The mean things of this world had only one lesson-we are meaner than you'd ever imagine.
DENNIS LEHANE Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?
DENNIS LEHANE Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those ...
DENNIS LEHANE We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to w...
DENNIS LEHANE We believe the Florida Supreme Court gave an opinion based on sound reasoning and grounded in Florid...
CHRIS LEHANE The Gore campaign wants the will of the people to be reflected accurately and completely, which will...
CHRIS LEHANE They say they can't do this, Al Gore says we can do this. He will do right on behalf of the American...
CHRIS LEHANE It appears that Governor Bush is marching off in one direction while his key lieutenants are running...
CHRIS LEHANE Whenever you find yourself in a situation like the governor is in, you want to find a 'pivot point' ...
CHRIS LEHANE Any Republican presidential candidate who is supporting a risky tax cut that would hurt our children...
CHRIS LEHANE He's clearly listening to his consultants. His music wasn't playing. This undermines the central pre...
CHRIS LEHANE Senator Bradley is choosing to be an echo to Al Gore's voice in proposing policy that Al Gore has al...
CHRIS LEHANE The entrenched interests want to protect the status quo, and the apologists for those interests want...
CHRIS LEHANE In the autumn, Bradley came out with his policy positions and we entered a compare-and-contrast phas...
CHRIS LEHANE Perhaps his connections to the NRA and the money he's receiving from them explain why he's taking an...
CHRIS LEHANE We're not interested in who's producing the Madison Avenue TV ads. We're focused on the issues.
CHRIS LEHANE Contributing financially to charitable organizations is certainly noble and should be encouraged and...
CHRIS LEHANE The entrenched interests want to protect the status quo, and the apologists for those interests want...
CHRIS LEHANE [That assumes, of course, that voters are paying close attention. Few are--at least at this point.] ...
CHRIS LEHANE He approaches it with equanimity. You know there are going to be ups and downs.
CHRIS LEHANE For the last six years the vice president's most important job and responsibility has been to suppor...
CHRIS LEHANE And the winner is whoever has the biggest knife. Exactly what Arnold was hoping for, and looking for...
CHRIS LEHANE Arnold has clearly made it part of the plan to move more to the center. In an interesting way, he's ...
CHRIS LEHANE It only confirms what we've been saying all along. There is a process in place to handle the recount...
CHRIS LEHANE We have always said we're going to have a compare and contrast on the public policy issues.
CHRIS LEHANE This is not a race for prom king, this is a race for the presidency.
CHRIS LEHANE Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real ...
CHRIS LEHANE Gov. Bush has some explaining of his own to do. Such as how did $2.5 million in negative advertising...
CHRIS LEHANE [Also on Gore's agenda is an initiative proposing assistance to elderly widows.] Anyone who is in th...
CHRIS LEHANE He wants someone who can assume the responsibilities of the presidency, if called upon. He wants som...
CHRIS LEHANE I think the men will run even better at the Dartmouth Invitational ... especially if it's cool out.
BRUCE LEHANE The women will be meeting many of the best teams in the country, so we will need our shoes to be lac...
BRUCE LEHANE I was impressed with her intensity. Many athletes soften physically and mentally and lose confidence...
BRUCE LEHANE Even as we speak, they really haven't determined what the tones and right chords are. On the communi...
CHRIS LEHANE I hope this means Mr. Reich will educate Senator Bradley's team on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Sec...
CHRIS LEHANE Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know...
FELIX DENNIS Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like....
DENNIS PRAGER What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. ...
DENNIS QUAID I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or any...
DENNIS WILSON Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
DENNIS ECKERSLEY More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
DENNIS PRAGER One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. ...
DENNIS HASTERT In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
DENNIS RODMAN Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a camera...
DENNIS MUREN I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
DENNIS RODMAN As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
DENNIS POTTER I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit b...
DENNIS QUAID There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burn...
FELIX DENNIS I always want to find the best burger in town.
DENNIS QUAID 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society...
FELIX DENNIS The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I&#...
FELIX DENNIS You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
FELIX DENNIS There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
FELIX DENNIS The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
FELIX DENNIS You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ...
FELIX DENNIS I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wra...
FELIX DENNIS Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind th...
FELIX DENNIS The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
FELIX DENNIS There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
FELIX DENNIS America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic,...
FELIX DENNIS Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how c...
FELIX DENNIS Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them...
FELIX DENNIS I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive...
FELIX DENNIS It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
FELIX DENNIS You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on m...
DENNIS QUAID When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or Joh...
DENNIS FARINA Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leav...
DENNIS MILLER When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
DENNIS QUAID To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
DENNIS WEAVER It was an awesome place to play and I made a lot of friends here.
ADAM DENNIS A few times I wanted to leave my net to move the puck up but I wasn't sure where it was coming from,...
ADAM DENNIS You can't really change anything game to game so you just try to go in relaxed.
ADAM DENNIS No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but t...
ADAM DENNIS From the start of the year, 40 wins was a goal of mine and it just happened that 41 was the league r...
ADAM DENNIS That wasn't a friendly thing. He shot the puck down the ice at me so I fired it back.
ADAM DENNIS I didn't play very well. He's a good goalie and deserved a chance to play. I just feel like I let th...
ADAM DENNIS Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your ...
DENNIS RAINEY After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second...
DENNIS MILLER The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
DENNIS MILLER The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a ...
DENNIS WHOLEY See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
DENNIS SHARPE Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FRAKES Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
PATRICK DENNIS Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
DENNIS RODMAN A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
JOHN DENNIS You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex...
DENNIS HOPPER There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin...
EVERETTE DENNIS For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to ...
DENNIS FRANZ Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftis...
DENNIS ALTMAN My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over t...
DENNIS CONNER How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society w...
DENNIS PRAGER The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the ...
DENNIS PRAGER Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
DENNIS PRAGER One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's ...
DENNIS PRAGER Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance ha...
DENNIS PRAGER My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in mo...
DENNIS PRAGER A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, Geo...
DENNIS MILLER Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FAKES Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
DENNIS PRAGER Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometim...
DENNIS PRAGER In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and th...
DENNIS PRAGER Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionat...
DENNIS PRAGER If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than...
DENNIS PRAGER Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secular...
DENNIS PRAGER See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.
JOHN DENNIS Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else
DENNIS WOLFBERG Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small ...
DENNIS PRAGER I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and ...
DENNIS FRANZ Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.
DENNIS ROSS Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important an...
DENNIS PRAGER The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, th...
DENNIS PRAGER For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
DENNIS PRAGER Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries ...
DENNIS PRAGER My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I c...
DENNIS CROWLEY Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on ...
DENNIS PRAGER Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whit...
DENNIS PRAGER I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea over...
DENNIS PRAGER We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put for...
DENNIS CARDOZA Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it ...
DENNIS BERGKAMP I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the...
FELIX DENNIS When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
DENNIS WEAVER What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
FELIX DENNIS There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceiv...
DENNIS PRAGER I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
DENNIS RODMAN The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
DENNIS MILLER Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
DENNIS GABOR Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is ...
DENNIS PRAGER People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
FELIX DENNIS Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism r...
DENNIS PRAGER Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the unive...
DENNIS PRAGER With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core val...
DENNIS PRAGER Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
DENNIS PRAGER There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberal...
DENNIS PRAGER In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view ...
DENNIS PRAGER When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism ...
DENNIS PRAGER For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why huma...
DENNIS PRAGER The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death,...
DENNIS PRAGER Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude...
DENNIS PRAGER Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic t...
DENNIS PRAGER There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how in...
DENNIS PRAGER If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse ...
DENNIS PRAGER There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
DENNIS PRAGER For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration...
DENNIS PRAGER Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The mor...
DENNIS PRAGER