Away Quote by Martin Cruz Smith

“Find the crime, Arkady thought: trying to kill Stalin or missing him.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

“She [Kali] does according to her wisdom in destroying what is useless or what has lived its destined time.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

“The gaja might despise the Romany, but no Rom ever forgot his dead. For him, roaming over the earth were not only the half…

— Martin Cruz Smith

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

— Martin Cruz Smith

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards…

— Martin Cruz Smith

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

— Martin Cruz Smith

“it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god.…

— Martin Cruz Smith

Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former…

— Martin Cruz Smith

The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people…

— Martin Cruz Smith

“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

— Martin Cruz Smith