That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.