Private Eye Confidential Quotes

“When I entered college, I didn’t know what a private investigator was or did, and wouldn’t even have considered it for a career—I was too much of a snob.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“As in sport, if I don’t prepare well for a job I will be humiliated. I remember the sting of my losses a lot more than the joy of the wins.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“Any career comes with pressure. What I like about being a private investigator is you can tell whether you won or lost.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“Maybe from the lurid stories I’ve recounted in previous chapters, you might get the impression that I’m just waiting around for the phone to ring, beckoning me with tales of weirdness and big money. You would be wrong.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“Elrod, we have a problem. It looks like the car is either at Los Alamitos Army Airfield or at Disneyland.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“Upon returning home to his country club estate, still clad in panties, he was greeted by a small army of local police in squad cars who placed him under arrest.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“Khera threw a Nolan Ryan fastball with his cocktail glass, ricocheting off the assailant’s head.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“I follow a mental checklist to determine whether I take a case from a private client, or any client really. Factor one? Let’s be honest: cash.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“My biggest complaint about working as a private dick is the solitary lifestyle;”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“Journalism also helped build my bullshit detector. The experience taught me that most people have an ax to grind and that most people withhold information.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.

“There’s too much stuffiness in the legal world. In photos, do members of the Supreme Court ever look healthy or like they are having fun? They look embalmed.”
― Mike Spencer, Private Eye Confidential: Stories from a Real P.I.