“I see you’re not quite the moralist, after all.” “A pragmatist will grow fat while a moralist starves,” Wilkins said. - Michael P. Kube-McDowell

Cleaner hands next time, he vowed silently. I’ll let others do the killing the next time. That’s what separates Presidents from mobsters, after all.

“Thank you for not disappointing me,” Somerset said. “You’re every bit the ass I was told to expect.”
“So you don’t bother to deny it.”
“No, I don’t. Because I don’t bother to deny idiotic blather,” Somerset snapped.

“I guess it just happens. How many really happy couples do you know?”
Arens blew smoke skyward. “Not many. Seems like everybody settles for less than they thought they were going to get.”
“I thought we were going to be different.”
“Everybody does,” Arens said.