“ See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take… Robert B. Parker
“ I needed to find my way to write. I need about six hours of uninterrupted time in order to produce about two hours of writing and when I accepted that and found the way to do it then I was able to w… Robert B. Parker
“ I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women. Robert B. Parker
“ It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired alo… Robert B. Parker
“ For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. Robert B. Parker
“ Hawk looked at Tony without speaking. He had three gunshot wounds and still could barely stand, but Robert B. Parker
“ Tony’s patois kept getting broader as we talked. Like Hawk, he seemed able to turn it on and off. Sho ’nuff, he said. Robert B. Parker
“ E.M. Forster, who said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying his friend, he hoped he’d have the courage to betray his country. Robert B. Parker
“ Called Evan Malone at the number Epstein had given me and got his wife, and made an appointment to come up to his place on Bow Lake to talk with him. On the drive up Route 93, I called Epstein on the… Robert B. Parker
“ I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies. Robert B. Parker
“ ...You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Eve… Robert B. Parker
“ Yeah. Floyd is his batman."His what?"Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you… Robert B. Parker
“ Pearl was hurring around my apartment, sniffing everything, including Rich Beaumont and Patty Giacomin, which neither of them like much."Can you get Pearl to settle down?" Paul asked."I could speak to… Robert B. Parker
“ The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have. Robert B. Parker
“ After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refri… Robert B. Parker
“ Rachel drank some more bourbon. “What I am trying to do,” she said, “is tothank you. And to say it as genuinely as I can. I do thank you. I will remember aslong as I live when you came into the room a… Robert B. Parker
