Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.


Three Complete Novels (ed. Outlet, 1993)


Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one,...

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one,...

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one,...

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one,...