I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print.

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

A really good detective never gets married.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

To say goodbye is to die a little.