Richard Stark Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Richard Stark

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? — Richard Stark

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 — Richard Stark

Please ... they'll kill me. I'll kill you ... worry about me. — Richard Stark

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

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. — Richard Stark

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. — Richard Stark

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man. — Richard Stark

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

The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they his big hands were born to slap with, they knew his face would never break into a smile when he looked at a woman. They knew what he was, they thanked God for their husbands, and still they shivered. Because they knew how he would fall on a woman in the night. Like a tree. — Richard Stark

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

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

I'm only the messenger!"
"Now you're the message", Parker told him and shot him. — Richard Stark

For you, that tree is dead. — Richard Stark