You know what Canino will do---beat my teeth out and then kick me in the stomach for mumbling. - Raymond Chandler

had my books been any worse I would not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I would not have come.

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women. Women made me sick.

He looked around and yawned. “I haven’t been sleeping well. It’s nice in here. But after a while the lushes will fill the place up and talk loud and laugh and the goddam women will start waving their hands and screwing up their faces and tinkling their goddam bracelets and making up with the packaged charm which will later on in the evening have a slight but unmistakable odour of sweat.”
“Take it easy,” I said. “So they’re human, they sweat, they get dirty, they have to go to the bathroom. What did you expect – golden butterflies hovering in a rosy mist?