If a man doesn't like baseball, then he must like horses, and if he doesn't like either of them, well, I'm in trouble anyway: he don't like girls.

Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.

She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle.

It's redundant to die in Los Angeles.

So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived

I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.