I certainly admire people who do things.

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.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

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.

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.