This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.