22 Quotes by Richard Stark

They had this block to themselves. The windows of all the tenements on both sides were marked with the white X of urban renewal; they stood nearly empty, waiting for the wreckers. Within them the cockroaches crawled and the rats chittered, but the humans were away, infesting some other neighborhood.

PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ....Beat that for a PC opening line.... not

When a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told him to go to hell.

People get used to everything but being dead.

He beat out a drumroll on the table edge with the first two fingers of each hand.

Nobody but Parker can irritate people so quick.” Jacko.

The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they his big hands were born to slap with, they knew his face would never break into a smile when he looked at a woman. They knew what he was, they thanked God for their husbands, and still they shivered. Because they knew how he would fall on a woman in the night. Like a tree”.

Please... they’ll kill me. I’ll kill you... worry about me.

Hemingway’s judgment on people, that the competent guy does it on his own and the incompetents lean on each other.” In.