110 Quotes by Lawrence Block

She knew how much I needed her. And now she was teasing, playing games. I looked at her and watched her turn into a sex symbol in front of my eyes. She did not look sweet and virginal and lovely anymore. I looked at the very simple summer dress and saw breasts and belly and hips. I looked at her eyes and saw lust as naked as my own.

We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.

Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...

Everybody's weird, fundamentally everybody is a snap. Sometimes it's a sexual thing and sometimes it's a different kind of weirdness, but one way or another everybody's nuts.

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.

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.

Oh, I don’t believe in anything. I especially don’t believe in astrology. Know why?”“Why?”“Because I’m a Saggitarius, and every Sagittarius knows astrology is a lot of hooey.

Be careful... What the dude said, ain’t it? ... One lived in the woods and didn’t pay his taxes. Musta been before Lyme disease, when you could still get by with that shit. You know the dude I talkin’ about. Said to watch out for jobs you got to dress up for.” “Thoreau.” “Yeah, that’s him.