Robert B. Parker

“The good people are all quiet. It's the fools and the crooks that are making all the noise.”

“Nobody can get it right all the time. But we can try.”

“Life is full of temporary situations, ultimately ending in a permanent solution.”

“The hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from doing what he has decided to do.”

“Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more complicated than you think.”

“I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession. They're obsessed with death.”

“It's easy to be reasonable when you're not in trouble.”

“The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.”

“Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.”

“Education is a process of self-discovery.”

“Maybe the best things are those that take the most work.”

“There's no deodorant like success.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.”

“The nice thing about writing is that you can make up stuff.”

“Cops and criminals are not unrelated, they're just two sides of the same coin.”

“When you get to my age, you'll find that you're not in control of anything, and that's a terrifying thought.”

“The more I have to do, the more I get done.”