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

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

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

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

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.