American Desperado Quotes

“When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil things we can think of, but everybody else pretends like they're on the side of the angels. The reality is, if the angels want to win, it takes the devil to succeed.”
― Jon Roberts, American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

“My grandfather, Poppy, died before Christmas in 1977. He died in his bathtub. He liked to take baths. He took one, and his heart stopped. Poppy worked hard his whole life and had a good time fishing and writing his stupid poems. He was a good man. He loved water, and he died in a tub of warm water, so that was that.”
― Jon Roberts, American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

“Some of the guys we used were Outcasts. Others were half-assed soldiers like Mikey Shits from Little Italy. Mikey was a terrible fighter, but if he had something in his hand, he was okay. So he always carried a can of Campbell’s soup in his pocket. He’d use the can of soup to beat people. They called him Mikey Shits because he used to sit at the bar and get so fucked up he’d shit himself. He always smelled bad. But if we put a pretty girl on his arm, they’d let him in the nightclub.”
― Jon Roberts, American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset