[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.

Well, I thought, as I tidied up the kitchen, there's no question that a man who works all week needs to relax on the weekend. There's no question about that. There's only a question about this: What about a woman who works all week?

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.