“If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them,...” — Elmore Leonard Quote

“If I have several bad guys and I only want to end up with one of them, then I have to decide which one I want in the end. And normally it's the one who is the most interesting talker.”

“I got halfway through 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' I don't get it at all. What's the big thrill? It's boring.”

“To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.”

“I think the government, if you measure it in terms of the dollars out the door, about 83 percent of the government stays open in a government shutdown. Social Security checks go out; military still exists. The FBI still chases bad guys. I think the consequences have been blown out of proportion.”

“The establishment thinks we're the bad guys, and we're the radicals, but what they don't realize is we're actually the last line of defense. After us, it's the pitchforks.”

“I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.'”