"As far as entertainment districts went, in 1999 nothing beat Kabukicho for pure sleaze. Drugs, prostitution, sexual slavery, rip-off bars, dating clubs, massage parlors, S-and-M parlors, pornography shops and porn producers, high-dollar hostess clubs, low-dollar blow job salons, more than a hundred "
"“In the old days, those had been the guys I wrote about, not the guys I depended on to keep me alive. Before I went to the TMPD offices, I sent a quick e-mail to the cops I knew there warning them to pretend they didn’t know me. One of the detectives quickly wrote me back, “In a time like this, when"
"“You’re making his life hard. You’re doing what we should be doing. Good luck.”"
"“Once you get it printed, there’s less incentive to kill you. You’re a writer, right? Time to write.”"