The Maze Quotes

“My sister, Lynne, has relocated with her A-hole husband to the West Coast—wherever that is.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“A single death is a tragedy; multiple deaths are a sanitation problem.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“This is every cop’s worst nightmare—society’s worst nightmare—when the forces of law and order are themselves criminals.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“And so to seem like a regular guy and a good hire, I said, quoting Uncle Harry, “Whatever is not a crime is a business.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“It’s good to be the top cop in a small town.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“Computers are good, but they isolate the user and the information. People forget what they can’t see.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“Then the Devil—a well-known criminal defense attorney named Richard Shlofmitz—noticed her in court and”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“The world doesn’t try to screw you; the world is indifferent to you. But people try to screw you, and people need to know when they’ve picked the wrong guy to screw. And that’s me.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“By now, the three assholes were probably running out the back door and heading around both sides of the house to outflank”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“Max:”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“You criminalize what normal people want, and you make everybody a criminal. And when everybody’s a criminal, nobody’s a criminal.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“Apparently, Security Solutions did not want walk-in customers or drive-by shooters.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“Cops say that FBI means “fabulously boring individuals”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“The wineries attract tourists who like to talk about wine. I mean, do I talk about beer? It’s beer. Drink it and shut up.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“Meanwhile, I haven’t had sex in so long I can’t remember who brings the handcuffs.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“but every time I run into her in New York, she has a new guy, making me think she’s had more fresh mounts than a Pony Express rider.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“And here I am again, not convalescing this time but decompressing, which is a lot better than decomposing.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“Because, as we used to say in the NYPD: A single death is a tragedy; multiple deaths are a sanitation problem.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“wanted to sleep with Beth tonight, but I didn’t want to get involved tomorrow. On”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“realized that I still had feelings for Beth, so to keep my romantic options open when I saw her, I should say I was undecided about this job but seriously considering a blow job.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“You can’t drink all day unless you start in the morning.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze

“But a man can’t swim in the same river twice, because it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
― Nelson DeMille, The Maze