The Timothy Files Quotes

“I’m trying to quit smoking by not buying cigarettes. Now I find myself bumming them from other people. I’m going to die a mooch with lung cancer.” MacEver lights his Camel with a gold Dunhill, inhales deeply. The smoke doesn’t seem to come out mouth or nose. It just disappears. He takes another sip of his martini. “Alcohol and nicotine,” he muses. “Why don’t I just slit my wrists and be done with it.” “Too fast,” Cone says. “We’ve all got to suffer first.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Timothy Files

“Wall Street is fueled by greed and oiled by cupidity. It is a state of mind, a culture, a never-never land with all the hopeful romance of the Roseland Ballroom and the grungy despair of a Bowery flophouse. Men have soared on Wall Street—and not all of them through the nearest window because they guessed wrong.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Timothy Files

“Players on Wall Street, addicted to the madness, have coined a number of pithy aphorisms to serve as guides to financial adventures: “If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.” “Never panic—but if you do, make sure you’re the first to panic.” “Happiness can’t buy money.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Timothy Files