146 Quotes by Robert B. Parker

I liked the myth elements of Christmas. The way in which its origins reach back far beyond Jesus, to the rituals of people unknown to us. The celebration of the winter solstice. The coming of light in the darkest time.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It’s all there is.

To imply something,” Jesse said, “you have to know something. I’m just trying to learn.

I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don’t always succeed, but I try. I’m trying now and I’m going to keep at it.

I really don’t know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

What if you could be young again and were able to undo the things that were done that made you into the person you would later become. But then who would you be.

College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.

In the bank they did the same kind of stuff the fortune-teller and the bookie had done. But they dressed better.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don’t know.