There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.

The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.