He didn't curl his lip because it had been curled when he came in. - Raymond Chandler

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

"Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood

It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.