Steve Perry Quotes

The end, in this case, would justify the means. It did that, sometimes. But somewhere along the way he had lost his godlike surety; he had had to think instead of feel, and the monkey brain was never as quiet as the zen mind.

Okay, I need to go places and shoot people.

The rules are different for rich men," he said. "Always have been.

Perhaps the voice stilled. Perhaps not. Either way, he lost the sound of it in the surging wave that crested and carried him to new places with this new woman. For a few moments, at least, the sound went away, along with the darkness, the worry, the memories. He and Moon danced the oldest man and woman dance, yin and yang, and all else was less than a shadow.
For a few moments.

Of course, laws weren’t always just. Some rules outlawed a thing because it was intrinsically bad: child molestation, say. Other rules made harmless activities crimes only because someone wished them to be so. Take cohabitation on a religious holiday. On some worlds, it was legal on one day, illegal the next, and on the third, okay once again. Khadaji could see no moral dilemma there.

Rich people seldom run amok; They hire somebody to do that for them.

We aren't looking for trouble."
"Doesn't mean you won't find it.

Desire, she realized, was a thick fog that could completely obscure reality.

Well. You were allowed to be young and stupid, when you were young and stupid, and if it didn’t do you in, you might get older and wiser.

I'm sorry," he said. "I know it sucks."
"You didn't create it, you just pointed it out. If I thought shooting the messenger would fix it, you'd already be bleeding out.

He was a frustrated romantic, a thing often mistaken for skepticism.

Never felt so alive as you did after you came out of a battle in one piece. And if you were dead? You wouldn’t feel that...

The gnat had bitten the dinosaur.
The revolution had begun!

Everybody’s got secrets, and some of the worst ones belong to those with the most power.

Life is more important than glory.