Dennis Lehane

"Wickham is not an upwardly mobile community. It's dingy and gray as only a mill town can be. The streets are the color of a shoe bottom, and the only way to tell the difference between the bars and th…"

"Hate came in a maelstrom, and we called it several things—racism, pedophilia, justice, righteousness—but all those words were just ribbons and wrapping paper on a soiled gift that no one wanted to ope…"

"Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the …"

"Dennis Lehane Talks" - an August 2005 Maddux Business Report interview"

"John Connolly interview with Dennis Lehane 2000"

"Dennis Lehane on Mystic River"

"I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum."