Robert B. Parker Quotations

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said. "That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?" Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said. "Iron self-control" I said.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

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.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

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.