JOSHUA

“Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.”
― 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

“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?

“New York is full of water, and neither looks it nor acts it. Of the five boroughs of the city, only one—the Bronx—is on the mainland of the United States, and yet you can spend months in New York without seeing any water except what comes out of the faucet.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Dancing Aztecs