You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

I think the smell of something is so important, especially when you're putting it on your face.

I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!