110 Quotes by Lawrence Block

Tomorrow’s always there, just over the horizon. Until the tomorrows run out.

Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I.

Donald Westlake’s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you’ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you’ll want on that desert island.

They’ve transformed the weather into some sort of celestial crap game.

I haven’t got anything against cats. I haven’t got anything against elk either, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to keep one in the store so I’ll have a place to hang my hat.

I wouldn’t presume to define noir – if we could define it, we wouldn’t need to use a French word for it – but it seems to me it’s more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.

Sometimes it’s a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it’s the other way around.

I don’t know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.