Well, all he did was kill a Negro,” I said. “I guess that’s only a misdemeanor. - Raymond Chandler

"So you shoot people," she said quietly. "You're a killer."
"Me? How?"
"The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But I don't believe everything I read."
"Oh, you think I accounted for Geiger - or Brody-or both of them."
She didn't say anything. "I didn't have to," I said. "I might have. I suppose, and got away with it. Neither of them would have hesitated to throw lead at."
"That makes you a killer at heart, like all cops."
"Oh, nuts."

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

I was fired. For insubordination. I test very high on insubordination,