A Gambler's Jury Quotes

“Life as art or life as project, woman. See, Rockefeller knew what he wanted from an early age. He built his life around it. He told himself that his life was going to be a certain way, and he planned the trajectory so it would go in that direction. Anything that didn’t add to his vision of that life, his project, he wouldn’t do. His family, his friends, his health, all of it came second to his project. “Morrison went the opposite way. He painted a canvas with his time—a beautiful painting of emotion, imagination, and poetry. Experience coming together to weave this tapestry of pleasure and pain. That’s it, sister. That’s all you got. Life as art or project. So you gotta choose. In my opinion, the best choice is the painting. Make life your painting.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Relationships, the ones that last, don’t start with good looks and sex. They start with friendships. And you are the best friend I’ve ever had. I’m your soul mate, not him.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Fairness is laughable in our criminal justice system, isn’t it? I completely forgot, silly me.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“police reports were detailed, but like all police reports, they were filled with so many grammatical and spelling mistakes and confusing descriptions that it made you want to tear your hair out. I wondered if it’d be that hard to set up an English class at the POST academy to train officers on the difference between “meat” and “meet”—unless two suspects actually did “meat” at a house on State Street and “meat” was some new sexual act that I hadn’t learned about yet.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Maybe the point was not to show life how much power it really had.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“But what could I do about it? Life seemed to be random chaos on top of random chaos, dragging you by the short hairs.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“This was probably the hardest part of my job: convincing the unreasonable to be reasonable.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Crime was always a growth industry.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“There’s only two ways to make it in life, Rollins. Jim Morrison, or John Rockefeller.” “What?” “Life as art or life as project, woman. See, Rockefeller knew what he wanted from an early age. He built his life around it. He told himself that his life was going to be a certain way, and he planned the trajectory so it would go in that direction. Anything that didn’t add to his vision of that life, his project, he wouldn’t do. His family, his friends, his health, all of it came second to his project. “Morrison went the opposite way. He painted a canvas with his time—a beautiful painting of emotion, imagination, and poetry. Experience coming together to weave this tapestry of pleasure and pain. That’s it, sister. That’s all you got. Life as art or project. So you gotta choose. In my opinion, the best choice is the painting. Make life your painting.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“I drank the beer and the shot. I wondered if I drank too much, so I ordered another beer and shot to forget that.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“house was small and dilapidated. It looked like the type of place old rock stars went to die.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“the county had set up the system to ensure their public defenders were overworked and underpaid, making certain they wouldn’t actually fight cases, appeal constitutional issues, and generally call them on their bullshit. Dictators don’t like naysayers.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“The day dragged on like an anchor through mud on the ocean floor. Every second had to be endured rather than enjoyed.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“One of them, a big guy in an expensive gray suit with massive male boobs, said something that pissed me off and I called him Adolph Titler, which caused her to laugh to no end. The partner fired her right there, and I immediately hired her.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Call it what you want. The problem with you bleeding-heart types is you just don’t have the spine to do what’s necessary to make this country great again.” “We don’t need to make it great again—it’s always been great. Not because of people like you, but in spite of people like you. And when that jury acquits my client, we’re gonna file a lawsuit so big against the county and against you personally that you’ll be working a century to pay it off.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“The PD took to the lectern and did his thing. I kept checking the door for Will. Finally, I texted him and asked where he was. He said they were here but having trouble at the metal detectors”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Marriage to someone you disliked was the American coffin that people willingly got into.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury

“Time had a way of destroying those who were concerned only about their looks: the more someone cared about their outward appearance, the worse they looked with age. Some sort of universal principle granted dignity in old age to people who saw appearances as ultimately unimportant.”
― Victor Methos, A Gambler's Jury