A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
“I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.”
“So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.”