A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

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

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

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.

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

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