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1 " Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on. "
― Christopher G. Moore , God Of Darkness
2 " *Okay, you make eating hos sound pretty. talk poetry to me, writer boy.* "
― Christopher G. Moore , The Risk of Infidelity Index: Vincent Calvino, an American P.I. in Bangkok
3 " To stay married, you need a fair amount of ignorance. Selective forgetting is what makes close proximity possible. It’s what we forget about someone that lets us find some peace, some happiness. "
― Christopher G. Moore , The Marriage Tree (Vincent Calvino Crime Novel)
4 " The spirits of the young women are at rest,” said Marley, “if you believe the legend.” “I am believing that spirits never rest. That is their misfortune. They have no choice but to roam endlessly and never to arrive. It is our belief. "
5 " Wirot held up his card, and the "
― Christopher G. Moore , 9 Gold Bullets (Vincent Calvino, #12)
6 " Misfits, con artists, evildoers all had business cards. It was enough to make any man a bona fide misanthrope. "
― Christopher G. Moore , Pattaya 24/7
7 " All yings are time rats, time bandits. Open their guts and what you find inside their digestive tract are the second and minutes of hundreds of men’s lives. Time cannibals. All those broken minute and hour hands just lying undigested in their stomach. It makes me want to drink. "
― Christopher G. Moore , Cold Hit: A Novel
8 " That was the grand bargain with evil. No wrong ever got righted, any more than a hangman’s rope was ever unknotted and used as a child’s swing. "
― Christopher G. Moore , Crackdown (Vincent Calvino Crime Novel Book 15)
9 " My goal is to live far outside of history as possible. History is a territory where mostly bad things happen to good people. "
10 " Rumors in Thailand don’t have fathers or mothers. They’re orphans of loan sharks, con men, streetwalkers, and fortune tellers. No one claims them until they become legitimate. "
― Christopher G. Moore
11 " I’d rather go broke giving enemas to house lizards than make money from customers like him. Old George made a fist and thrust it toward the water buffalo mounted on the wall above his head. "
― Christopher G. Moore , Paying Back Jack: A Vincent Calvino Novel (Vincent Calvino, #10)
12 " I’ve heard that you’re in the pain business. I don’t like doing work for that kind of man,” said Vincent Calvino. Casey rolled his neck and a small cracking noise echoed from the bones inside. “If you worked only for people you liked, you wouldn’t cover your rent. "
13 " It was now hard to believe how difficult it had once been to follow a person in Bangkok in a time before smart phones and social media. The new generation demanded to be followed online. It was in their digital blood. A small investment in a few specialized apps, and not even Sherlock Holmes in his most inspired opium dreams could have imagined the possibilities. "
14 " Let me share what I’ve learned about Thai politics. Keep a distance from those doing a victory dance in the end zone unless you understand their game, how it’s scored and how many players each side has. If you can’t figure out the rules of the game, you won’t know when the game has started and when it’s over. Don’t put a bet on a game you don’t understand. "
15 " Thais have a saying about a frog living inside a coconut shell. The frog believes that the world inside the shell is the whole universe. In the private investigation business, Vincent Calvino had clients who like the frog. What they saw from inside their shell blinded them, made them unable to solve a problem. So they hired Calvino. He knew the drill. Shells offered comfort and security. Leaving could be a dangerous business. "
16 " The Bangkok Comfort Zone - that strip running between Patpong, Soi Cowboy and Nana - was a huge bank of ice, thick as a glacier. Only you had to be around years and years to see and feel the deep chill, and by the time you had it was too late, the glacier had already dragged you under. "
― Christopher G. Moore , Comfort Zone
17 " Asking if there is corruption in Thailand is like asking if there is dough inside a bakery. Pies and cakes don’t come from heaven and neither do deals and contracts. "
― Christopher G. Moore , Spirit House (Vincent Calvino #1)
18 " The best crime fiction is not so much a search and rescue mission, but a recovery mission. "
― Christopher G. Moore , Faking It in Bangkok
19 " Feudalism, that discreet system of gentlemen gangsters and serfs, had never died out in the region, and was concealed in the trappings of modern buildings and streets. Only a lunatic would quarrel with his master; only a fool would not understand that he stood in the steel jaws of death his entire life. "
20 " My grandfather said the sfumato described a psychological and spiritual transition between states of being. This transition was infinite and that’s why we, living in the finite, didn’t understand it. Some called it the Void. But that wasn’t sfumato. We chased the Smoky Dragon. We rode the dragon. We were the dragon. Finite time was our dance audition. Eternity was opening night. "
― Christopher G. Moore , Dance Me to the End of Time (Vincent Calvino Crime Novel Book 17)
