Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns. - George V. Higgins

He's not a bad guy. He just didn't get any luck and by the time he figured out what was happening to him it was too late to do anything about it.

That's what I mean, that's why they don't do it anymore. It makes a helluva lot more sense, but nobody does it because it'd cost too much money up front and nowadays the whole thing is, you put as much money into it as it takes to make it stand up straight for maybe six years and then you depreciate the ass off of it in five and you sell the fuckin' thing to somebody else. That's the way it works now, and if you don't know that everybody figures that you're just an asshole and there isn't any point in talking to you anyway.

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.