Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had - Raymond Chandler

To the memory of Mr. Stan Phillips. (...) Just another four-flusher.

You know who they are?” Tony said softly. “I could maybe give nine guesses. And twelve of them would be right.” (I'll be waiting)

A man like you who is supposed to know his way around. The law isn’t justice. It’s a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.