Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

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

I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he had a second horse waiting for me.

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

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!

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

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