Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

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 modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution from the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.