You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.
Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.
A really good detective never gets married.
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.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.