The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian Quotes

“You think he just died of natural causes?”
“This is New York. Murder’s a natural cause in this city.”
― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian

“I see,” I said, which is something I very often say when I don’t.”
― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian

“I told Carolyn it was a great day for running, and she told me there was no such thing.”
― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian

“I was reading Defoe’s The History of Colonel Jack, and the man lived seventy years without ever writing a dull sentence, but I had a little trouble keeping my mind on his narrative. Still, I bided my time. A man likes to make an entrance. Which I ultimately did, saying, Oh, great. Everybody’s here. It was comforting the way every head turned at my words and every eye followed me as I skirted the semicircular grouping of chairs and dropped into the leather wing chair facing them. I scanned the little sea of faces—well, call it a lake of faces. They looked back at me, or at least most of them did. A few turned”
― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian

“epics like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Eaten Alive by Lemmings. Well, it figured. Get rid of sex and violence and how would you know Times Square was the Crossroads of the World?”
― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian

“You’re probably familiar with Broadway Boogie Woogie—that’s one of his most famous”
― Lawrence Block, The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian