So is he gonna wake up from that nap yet or what? - Raymond Chandler

But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hard — well, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights.

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

She put a hard-boiled sneer on her face and gave me plenty of time to get used to it