You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

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 coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.