Matty Pierce, the acting student who'd had the fistfight with Dale Wormley, had that indefinable look of the actor who plays tough guys. It's all layers of pose and posture, veneer over veneer, with no apparent reality beneath it all. These guys, with thick gleaming black hair, chunky bodies, overly bright eyes as though they'd had a plastic surgery eye-tuck at the age of ten, cocky smile, slightly lumpy "rugged" good looks, are palpably different from actual street toughs. There's no anger in them, for one thing (though there is arrogance), and none of the defensiveness of the real punk. These are guys who've never had their bluff called. They get a lot of work in teen movies, riding motorcycles.
- Donald Westlake writing as Samuel Holt, The Fourth Dimension Is Death, p.217
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