Watch Your Back! Quotes

“huddled together at the left end of the bar, as silent and miserable as kittens in a sack with the bridge getting close.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Watch Your Back!

“In short, the place looked exactly like that section of the socialist realist mural where the workers have been utterly shafted by the plutocrats. Dortmunder looked up, half-expecting to see top hats and cigars in the gloom up there, but nothing.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Watch Your Back!

“If buyer’s remorse ever accomplished anything in this world,” Max said, “we’d all still be living in caves.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Watch Your Back!

“an old Underwood office machine so big and black and ancient it looked as though it should come with a foreign correspondent attached.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Watch Your Back!

“This Mikey,” Kelp said, “he’s the son of a mob guy, which is even worse than a mob guy. He came up soft, and he thinks he’s hard.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Watch Your Back!

“A ladder, in this neighborhood, whadawe gonna do? Wear Con Edison coveralls and helmets? To lean on an alarm box?”
― Donald E. Westlake, Watch Your Back!