The doctors told told me there would be some pain involved. Hah! When a surgeon suggest that you might feel a bit of mild discomfort, you can bet you… - Mike Resnick

You have many wonderful qualities, Virtue—you lie and cheat and blackmail and bluff with great panache, and you’re thoroughly delightful in bed—but you simply aren’t a skilled professional killer.

“This is a grim business. There’s nothing romantic about harassing an overwhelming power with no hope of winning.”
“If he knows he can’t win, why does he do it?”
“To avoid losing.”
“That sounds profound, but it doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense,” said Cain.

You have no moral compunctions about it?" persisted Batman.
"Hell, no," replied Monk. "As Thaddeus says, if God didn't want them fleeced, He wouldn't have made 'em sheep. Words to live by, once you become a carny.