Richard Helms Quotes & Sayings

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed. — Richard Helms

I had seen so many injustices done in the court by well-meaning people. I had lost fourteen clients to gang violence in only seven years. I was angry at a system I thought had failed my clients, and I was part of it. — Richard Helms

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. — Richard Helms

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence. — Richard Helms

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul. — Richard Helms

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service. — Richard Helms