I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn’t need a gun, you’d better take one along that worked. - Raymond Chandler

You like it in jail?'
'It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

He [James Cain] is every kind of writer I detest...a Proust in greasy overalls, a dirty little boy with a piece of chalk and a board fence and nobody looking.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.