110 Quotes by Lawrence Block

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me,

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

I really don't write much anymore, and I'm not uncomfortable with that. I've tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don't want to go on.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

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.