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

The butler went away among the abominable plants. The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings.

"It's a swell theory," I said. "Marriott socked me, took the money, then he got sorry and beat his brains out, after first burying the money under a bush."

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had