Words Worth Noting - April 29, 2024

“One of them [a crook planning to rob a Vegas casino in the Donald Westlake novel What’s The Worst Thing That Could Happen?] says he has a lot of ideas, but Westlake writes: ‘A whole lot of ideas isn’t a plan.… Ideas without a plan is usually just enough boulders to get you into the deep part of the stream, and no way to get back.’”

George F. Will in National Post Dec. 5, 2001 [not clear if it’s his elision or Westlake’s]