Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
Raymond ChandlerThe dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.
Raymond ChandlerHammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish.
Raymond Chandler