Doctors are just people, born to sorrow, fighting the long grim fight like the rest of us. - Raymond Chandler

The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Suddenly, without any real change in her, she ceased to be beautiful. She looked merely like a woman who would have been dangerous a hundred years ago, and twenty years ago daring, but who today was just Grade B Hollywood.