I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

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 page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

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