Watch Your Back! (Dortmunder, #13)

by Donald E. Westlake

“When you’re very young or very old, you get to eat whenever the hell you feel like it, which, when you’re very old, is just a little bit earlier every day. Six o’clock, five forty-five . . . I figure, the day you sit down to supper at four o’clock, that’s God saying hello.

“Everybody wants to be somewhere he’s not, and as soon as he gets there he wants to go home.”

“It’s one of those things better looked back on than forward to.”

Laughing at him for how easy he was to lead around, and not even by the hand.

The difficulties of getting oneself on the road at the same time the sun is getting up are many and complex.

Back in coach, they could be roasting goats over an open flame for all he knew, and probably were, but up here among the readers of hardcover thrillers, life was good.