JOSHUA

“If you’ll take a look at the speeches made at the United Nations,” Agent Freedly said, “I think you’ll find they’re mostly ridiculous. But that never stops them from being delivered, translated, printed, and very often believed.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Why Me?

“Everything in life stands on what has gone before. You do this or that because, at the moment, it seems what to do. You are faced with this or that because of what happened somewhere earlier in your journey of life. What happened earlier depends on what went before that. Who would dispute that nobody stands in a void or a vacuum?”
― Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon: A Memoir

“The story of New York is speed, is movement, movement without stopping, on the go all the time, gotta hustle,”
― Donald E. Westlake, Dancing Aztecs

“Los Angeles isn’t a tank town.” “The hell it isn’t. Los Angeles is three Long Islands next to each other. But no Midtown Tunnel.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Dancing Aztecs