In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Before you quit, you have to try

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.