I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me. Loren D. Estleman More Quotes by Loren D. Estleman More Quotes From Loren D. Estleman Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later. Loren D. Estleman reading home two If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship. Loren D. Estleman voice literature suffering It is the supreme tragedy of the human condition that we are so quick to crush the beauty from the butterflies in our mist. Loren D. Estleman