However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
Raymond ChandlerIf 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.
Raymond ChandlerIt was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.
Raymond ChandlerThe moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
Raymond Chandler