22 Quotes by Richard Stark

What was the sense of talking about a problem if you didn’t have a way to solve it?

Walter Jelinek was a man, but he looked like a car, the kind of old junker car that had been in some bad accidents so that now the frame is bent, the wheels don’t line up any more, the whole vehicle sags to one side and pulls to that side, and the brakes are oatmeal.

The world was filling up with people, it seemed to him, who pulled their punches everywhere they went in life. Light beer, decaf coffee, low-sodium seltzer.

She’s dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.