And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

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.

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

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