He (The Agent) just takes ten per cent of your life.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world