A Nasty Piece of Work Quotes

“Life is short,” I told her. “The challenge is to make it sweet.”
― Robert Littell, A Nasty Piece of Work

“We need to take our cue from the drug dealers in Hoboken who, when they reach twenty, go to the local undertaker and prepay their funeral because they don’t expect to live to thirty.”
― Robert Littell, A Nasty Piece of Work

“Everything, as Mr. Yul Brynner used to tell us six nights a week and Saturday matinees, is a puzzlement.”
― Robert Littell, A Nasty Piece of Work

“The conversation had gotten off on the wrong foot and she knew it.”
― Robert Littell, A Nasty Piece of Work