May Be Wrong

         I may be wrong - i have been about so many things - but i can't recall ever hearing or knowing of a son-of-a-bitch who did not do all right for himself. I'm talking about real sons-of-bitches, understand. The grade-A, double distilled, steam-heated variety. You take a man like that, a son-of-a-bitch who doesn't fight it - who knows what he is and gives his all to it - and you've really got something.

Jim Thompson
Nothing Man
1954