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.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.

Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.

If you liked a book, don't meet the author

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.