It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in. - Raymond Chandler

I didn't have anything really exiting to drink, like nitroglycerin or distilled tiger breath.

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.

A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.