Quotes
Donald E. Westlake
Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.
The days are largely gone when the three broadcast networks could decide what the American people would watch.
Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
An orgasm is just a reflex, like a sneeze.
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
So much of our future lies in preserving our past.
The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.
Laughing out of fear of the future - that shock of realizing they've got to make a go of it.
It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.
It was a good day-like a rehearsal, really.
I'm glad that someone does!
For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.
We had a much deeper sense of community in '67 than we do in '97. This is important to say that not in a nostalgic way because it's not as if '67 was a time when things were so good.
The problem is we need much more moral content.