Richard Stark Quotes

I'm going to drink his blood, I'm going to chew up his heart and spit it into the gutter for the dogs to raise a leg at. I'm going to peel the skin off him and rip out his veins and hang him with them.

He beat out a drumroll on the table edge with the first two fingers of each hand.

Killing was never a good idea unless there were no other ideas.

When a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told him to go to hell.

You can steal in this country, you can rape and murder, you can bribe public officials, you can pollute the morals of the young, you can burn your place of business down for the insurance money, you can do almost anything you want, and if you act with just a little caution and common sense you'll never even be indicted. But if you don't pay your income tax, Grofield, you will go to jail.

You don't have any claim on the money, and there's no proof I ever saw or touched or spent a dollar of it. You want to take me to court?"
"You're in court right now," Parker said.

Never leave a guy alive who'd like to see you dead.

Please ... they'll kill me. I'll kill you ... worry about me.

Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you. Here you are back the third time. You call that smart?

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

PARKER spent two weeks on the white sand beach at Biloxi, and on a white sandy bitch named Belle, ...
Beat that for a PC opening line ... not

She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.

People get used to everything but being dead.

Well, it just figures, Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion.

If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning."
Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.