I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
Dames lie about anything - just for practice.
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
A really good detective never gets married.
He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.