The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
I'm killing time and it's dying hard.
A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.