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Waitresses came and went. They got acting jobs or broke up with their boyfriends or got new boyfriends or moved to Los Angeles or went home to Sioux Falls or had a fight with the Dominican kid in the kitchen or got fired for stealing or quit or got pregnant.
Well, ten years after the 1916 Rising they say it was hard to find a man in Dublin who hadn’t been part of it. That glorious Monday morning, when thirty brave men marched into the post office and ten thousand heroes marched out.
“Wasn’t it your George Washington who walked miles through the snow to return a penny to a customer?” “I think it was Abraham Lincoln.”
This nation’s heroes are great ones for honesty.” “They used to be.”
YOU decide something in your mind and then your body goes and decides something else.
He wanted to tell me how all the city’s problems were the fault of the former mayor. I didn’t necessarily disagree but I didn’t want to hear about it.
“You know much about the bar business?” “Just from the consumer’s point of view.”
Be something if I got myself stabbed by a burglar tonight, wouldn’t it? He’s with me and she gets killed, and then he’s with her and I get killed.
“At least ninety percent of what you do in an investigation doesn’t lead anywhere. Make that ninety-five percent—the people you talk to, the things you take time to check. But if you do enough things, the one thing that does work is in there.”
a sullen fat man who gazed on the world with a look of universal disapproval.
