Jimmy The Kid Quotes

“But after a person has been in analysis for nearly four years, it becomes second nature to automatically study and dissect all dreams and dream fragments. With his mind busily seeking the symbolic content of darkness, rubber masks, and strange voices, he couldn’t completely lose control, or remain panic-stricken for very long. “Oh,” he said, sighing with relief, “it’s just the kidnappers.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Jimmy the Kid

“Dortmunder was not a natural reader, but his times inside prison walls had shown him the usefulness of reading when you’re waiting for a certain number of days to go by. Reading can speed the days a little, and that’s all to the good. So all in all it had been a fairly familiar experience for him, reading a book, though strange to be doing it in a place with no bars over the window. And also strange to be doing it for some other reason outside the act of reading itself.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Jimmy the Kid

“Mr. Richard Stark 73 Cedar Walk Monequois, NJ 07826 Dear Dick:”
― Donald E. Westlake, Jimmy the Kid

“money paid to a kidnapper is not deductible on your income tax.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Jimmy the Kid

“And off in a corner, behind several stacks of Grit, was a good long coil of rope.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Jimmy the Kid

“television set, trying to make out what George Peppard was saying to Jill St. John. “It’s usually quieter than this,” Dortmunder said.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Jimmy the Kid

“Dyer Avenue, on the west side of midtown Manhattan, has almost no true existence at all. It runs eight blocks, from Thirty-fourth Street to Forty-second Street, and contains no houses, no shops,”
― Donald E. Westlake, Jimmy the Kid