I'm not a young man. I'm old, tired and full of no coffee. - Raymond Chandler

“Who is this Hemingway person at all?”
“A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good.”
“That must take a hell of a long time,” the big man said.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Alcohol is like love,” he said. “The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off.