--- title: "1 Dead Asked Quotes By Adrian McKinty" description: "1 Dead Asked quotes by Adrian McKinty. Plus more from Adrian McKinty and more Dead Asked sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/adrian-mckinty-19607_asked_what-s-news-she-put-the-magazine-down-an_2461988.png" --- > [“What’s news?” She put the magazine down and looked at me. “Philip K. Dick is dead.” “Who’s that?” I asked.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/what-s-news-she-put-the-magazine-down-and-looked-at-me-philip-k-dick/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0f/adrian-mckinty-19607_asked_what-s-news-she-put-the-magazine-down-an_2461988.png) ## More by Adrian McKinty > [“How do you feel about homosexuals, Mr. Scavanni?' I asked. 'I think they're great. More women for the rest of us,' he said sarcastically.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/how-do-you-feel-about-homosexuals-mr-scavanni-i-asked-i-think-they-re/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“It's been my experience that only children never learn when to keep their fucking traps shut. An older brother would have beat that out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/it-s-been-my-experience-that-only-children-never-learn-when-to-keep/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/the-bible-says-that-man-is-born-to-trouble-as-the-sparks-fly-upward/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“Don't go there, Sean. Not on a Sunday. There's no point making waves,” Crabbie said. He was as impatient as I was but maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/don-t-go-there-sean-not-on-a-sunday-there-s-no-point-making-waves/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“sallow-faced, balding, heavy lidded, Uriah Heep of a man, Kevin”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/sallow-faced-balding-heavy-lidded-uriah-heep-of-a-man-kevin/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“I’d met spooks and blades and they lied like they had invented the concept.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/i-d-met-spooks-and-blades-and-they-lied-like-they-had-invented-the/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/human-beings-are-pattern-seeking-animals-it-s-part-of-our-dna-that-s/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn’t escape Yoko for more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/the-problem-with-double-fantasy-was-the-arrangement-whereby-they/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in mystical parabolas.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/the-riot-had-taken-on-a-beauty-of-its-own-now-arcs-of-gasoline-fire/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/we-drank-our-whiskeys-it-was-the-good-stuff-and-it-tasted-of-salt-sea/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“Don’t trust whitey and whitey is fucking everywhere. We walked”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/don-t-trust-whitey-and-whitey-is-fucking-everywhere-we-walked/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“A black Mercedes Benz 450 SL pulled up. It was your classic hood auto beloved of terrorists, pimps and African dictators.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/a-black-mercedes-benz-450-sl-pulled-up-it-was-your-classic-hood-auto/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“squirrel is in a pine tree, when all of a sudden, it starts shaking. He looks down, and sees an elephant climbing the tree.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/squirrel-is-in-a-pine-tree-when-all-of-a-sudden-it-starts-shaking-he/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“You painted it pink?' Price asked with a grin. 'That’s lavender, you colour-blind eejit,' I said. McCallister saw that Price clearly hadn’t got the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/you-painted-it-pink-price-asked-with-a-grin-that-s-lavender-you/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) > [“As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-mckinty/as-the-russians-say-getting-what-you-want-sometimes-requires-moving/) [Adrian McKinty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-mckinty/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dead-asked/adrian-mckinty/#itemlist", "name": "1 Dead Asked Quotes By Adrian McKinty", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“What’s news?” She put the magazine down and looked at me. “Philip K. 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