Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

I try to stay in good physical shape, I don't smoke, I don't drink.