"What if it's in the cards for you to be suddenly, brutally murdered today?
What if you'll be collateral damage in a shootout at lunch?
What if, in one hour's time, you are going to be abducted
and tortured for hours at the hands of some pyschopath
then slowly killed in the most painful way possible?
You ever think of that?"
Ten Days in San José
by Arne Hemingway
"European men are like North American children when it comes to violence.
I wonder if they've ever really experienced it.
They'll do and say things that I, and I'm a big guy, wouldn't dream
of doing and saying unless I wanted to risk my life.
I don't where this cocky overconfidence comes from.
Have they really been that insulated all their lives?"
Ten Days in San José
by Arne Hemingway
"Once she was out of sight, I stumbled back to my hotel, mistakenly spent 15 minutes
trying to use my key card to get into the Nicaraguan embassy just up the road before
realizing what I was doing and lurching over correct building and letting myself in.
Miraculously, I made myself a screwdriver without dropping the vodka bottle."