Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

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

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!

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

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

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.

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