I always wanted to have Mike Mazurki play Hammer... too bad he couldn't act. - Mickey Spillane

The woman inside was important now. Perhaps the most important in the world. What she knew would help destroy an enemy when she told it. My hands in my pockets balled into hard knots to keep from shaking and for a moment the throbbing ache of the welts and cuts that laced my skin stopped.

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.