Randall Sullivan > Quotes

“Can what's buried beneath the ground on Oak Island possibly be worth what the search for it has already cost? Six lives, scores of personal fortunes, piles of wrecked equipment, and tens of thousands of man-hours have been spent so far, and that's not to mention the blown minds and broken spirits that lie in the wake of what is at once the world's most famous and frustrating treasure hunt.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Curse of Oak Island: The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt

“The bodyguard’s description of the shooting added a detail Poole had never heard before: That white Cadillac didn’t just pull up “alongside” the car Tupac and Suge were riding in, Alexander said, but was actually a little bit ahead of the BMW when the killer opened fire, allowing him to shoot at an angle that made it possible to avoid hitting Suge with a stray bullet.”
― Randall Sullivan, LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implications of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal

“Hackie said, Reggie Wright Jr. told him (during a conversation at the Death Row studios in Tarzana) that the case against Snoop was destroyed when important evidence disappeared from the West Los Angeles Police Station. Wright seemed to imply that one of his friends on the LAPD had taken care of this for him, Hackie recalled.”
― Randall Sullivan, LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G., the Implications of Death Row Records' Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal

“reconcile the Bible with the scientific materialism”
― Randall Sullivan, The Devil's Best Trick

“getting what you want will never make up for not having what you need”
― Randall Sullivan, Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson

“The abstract and indifferent deity Spinoza proclaimed was indistinguishable from nature; in fact, God and nature were simply two different words for the same reality,”
― Randall Sullivan, The Devil's Best Trick

“Joe “Hunt” Gamsky still purports to be a devotee of Yogananda and is visited occasionally by members of Ananda Church of Self-Realization. I wonder, if they or anyone ever asks Joe how it felt to strangle poor little Richard Mayer; Or how he feels about getting away with that now?”
― Randall Sullivan, The Price of Experience

“Brooke Roberts (Joe Hunt’s longtime beard “front” gf) made the comment that she could not figure out why Joe would get out of bed every morning, totally nude, go striding into Dean's bedroom and stay in there for an hour.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Price of Experience

“It is in Zechariah that Satan is for the first time described as “the adversary” of mankind. Yet he still seems to be in God’s service.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Devil's Best Trick

“Epicurus (341–270 B.C.) is the first person known to have formally posed the problem of evil, and he did so in a way that has compelled theologians ever since to wrestle with the “Epicurean paradox”: “Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If can, but does not want to, he is wicked.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Devil's Best Trick

“force of evil that human beings can best comprehend by personifying it,”
― Randall Sullivan, The Devil's Best Trick

“Augustine left the Church with a trinity of related explanations for the existence of evil. The first explanation was that evil exists because God tolerates it as necessary for the greater good. The second explanation was that evil exists because the Devil wills it to be and promotes its spread among the human race. The third explanation was that evil exists because some human beings freely choose it.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Devil's Best Trick

“The moral sins and physical evils suffered by humans are not inflicted on us arbitrarily, Leibniz insisted, but rather exist as a necessary consequence of the metaphysical evil, or imperfection, required to maintain our material reality, separate from God.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Devil's Best Trick

“Joe Hunt said he just kept shooting, a lot of times. He said that at one point Ron Levin's brain jumped out of his skull and fell on his chest. Joe seemed like he thought that was kind of neat in a weird way, as if it had surprised him. He was very casual when he was telling me all of this, matter-of-fact, except when he laughed about the brain.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Price of Experience: Money, Power, Image, and Murder in Los Angeles

“The main idea that united the various Gnostic sects was their belief that the world is completely evil and cannot be redeemed.”
― Randall Sullivan, The Devil's Best Trick