Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

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

Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust-these are the books you'll want on that desert island.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.