Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.