The Devil Knows You're Dead Quotes

“I looked down into my glass. It held club soda, but the way I was gazing into it you’d have thought it was filled with something stronger. I used to stare like that into glasses of whiskey, as if they contained coded answers. All they did was dissolve the questions, but there was a time when that was enough.”
― Lawrence Block, The Devil Knows You're Dead

“Set your mind at rest,” he said. “I don’t steal from clients, I just overcharge them. It’s a lot more lucrative in the long run and you spend less time in prison.”
― Lawrence Block, The Devil Knows You're Dead

“A mind may be a terrible thing to waste, but it’s an even worse thing to have to listen to.”
― Lawrence Block, The Devil Knows You're Dead