79 Quotes by Donald E. Westlake

a faked suicide attempt (is) dishonesty

A terrified man can have an accident much more readily and much more quickly than a calm man.

A (catch) net (is) no good unless the person to be caught (wants) to be caught.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

After a summer as jam-packed with incident as Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the fall and winter of 1967 passed with placid serenity on the island of Anguilla, as free from action as a Saul Bellow novel.

What the Trinidad Guardian had in 1967 called “the most empty diplomatic threat in history” had now become a reality. Two months after British economic aid to Anguilla had stopped because of the end of the Interim Agreement, the British decided to stop all economic aid.

I am cuckolding myself

Well, she was dead, and there was no use crying over spilt milk.

You're too cheap. You'd make me nervous to work for you. I'd come to you for a gun, you wouldn't want to give me more than one bullet.