"The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment." (<i>A Quali… - Raymond Chandler

All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All I did was nothing.

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

The trouble with cops is not that they're dumb or crooked or tough, but that they think just being a cop gives them a little something that they didn't have before. Maybe it did once, but not anymore. They're topped by too many smart minds.