California, the department store state.
If you liked a book, don't meet the author
It is not a fragrant world.
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
If 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.
Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.