Max Allan Collins Quotes

Zigzag... don't bunch up. Weave like a drunk on New Year's... Got it?

People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?

Fiction is largely the process of writers solving problems of their own creation.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. Potter Stewart,

If you're turned away from one road, there's always another
filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.

Inside my head, I shit my pants.

Evelyn: Look, I ... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I ... am a librarian.
The Mummy (1999)

The longer we're alive, the more friends - - and adversaries - - we create, and collect. - Jim Brass

The goddamn kid just sat there and out of the blue thrust his middle finger in the air and waved it at Jon with a brazen defiance only ten-year-olds and Nazis can muster.

for work these days; nobody had been hired in janitorial

Is that where you took care of him? In a restroom?"
"No. I walked him out to the runway and threw him in front of a Boeing.

Absurdly, dead fish by the hundreds were washing ashore, their peaceful world disrupted by man's squabble.

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr.,

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren

She couldn't stop herself from grinning back at

Evelyn: [drunk] You're wondering, 'What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?'
Rick: Yeah, something like that.

Eyes Only is more than just a voice and eyes on some cable hack ... it's more like a network. People who help Eyes Only, they're all loyal, and they don't talk to anybody about anything, if you're not one of them.