Playmates Quotes

“He who would be a man must be a non-conformist.”
― Robert B. Parker, Playmates

“Dr. (Samuel) Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
― Robert B. Parker, Playmates

“Everyone froze.
In real time the whole sequence had probably taken ten seconds. In the slow motion of crisis time it had unreeled in ponderous elegance, and the crystalline immobility that followed was intensified by the lingering smell of gunfire, like an olfactory echo of the big bang.”
― Robert B. Parker, Playmates

“Professionally,” Susan said, “I’m not at all sure that love, as such, is not simply a complex of human impulses: need, identification, possessiveness, fear of loneliness, impulse to replicate the family from which you sprang, sexual desire, anger, the desire to punish, the desire to be punished.”
― Robert B. Parker, Playmates

“I was struggling happily with my ribs. Normally I ended up with barbecue sauce in my socks when I ate ribs, but I always figured they were worth it.”
― Robert B. Parker, Playmates

“When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you’ll come to understand what it is.”
― Robert B. Parker, Playmates