A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles)

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

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.

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.