Jaya Carl

“two slender young women dressed for success in dark blue long-skirted suits, plain white blouses and colorful bunchy neckties. They were talking about diet chocolate-chip cookies from a marketing point of view. “Our main subject is the assuagement of guilt,” one said, and the other said, “Exactly. Of course you’re as fat as a hippopotamus and your husband can’t stand the sight of you, but every time you reach for a diet chocolate-chip cookie it shows you’re seriously trying. No more guilt.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Good Behavior

“If only everybody could be a cloistered nun,”
― Donald E. Westlake, Good Behavior

“I don’t want to go to Heaven. None of my friends are there. Oscar Wilde”
― M.C. Beaton, Death of a Traitor

“Dortmunder had learned patience at great cost. The trial and error of life among human beings had taught him that whenever a bunch of them began to jump up and down and shout at cross-purposes, the only thing a sane man could do was sit back and let them sort it out for themselves. No matter how long it took.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Bank Shot