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

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

The challenge is to write about real things magically.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.