“It’s the best advertising they can have. The true addicts want that (powerful) high. When word gets around, business booms.”
— Anthony Riccio, head of the Chicago Police Department’s organized crime unit, on the increasing number of people in the Chicago area dying from a highly potent mixture of heroin from Mexico and fentanyl from China
“There’s going to be a lot of chainsaw work. If you got tools, use ’em. If you’re breathing, you can work. This is Rockport. We’ll be fine.”
— Max Rinche, on rebuilding Rockport, Texas, following the devastation of Hurricane Harvey
“No one (at Harvard) — at least no one with a scrap of dignity — will want to be seen taking pictures of Malia. It would look pathetic if other students, her peers, were so adulatory.”
— Ellis Chasmore, a visiting professor of sociology at England’s Aston University, on campus life at Harvard for former first daughter Malia Obama
