A good title is the title of a successful book.

I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

I'm killing time and it's dying hard.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.