That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference. - Raymond Chandler

Overhead the rain still pounded, with a remote sound, as if it was somebody else's rain.

'He used to wear a little blond moustache but Mother made him cut it off. She said -'\n'Don't tell me. The minister needed it to stuff a cushion>'

"The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective."

(Letter, April 19, 1951)