A man who indulges in parenthood for the first time at the age of fifty-four deserves all he gets. - Raymond Chandler

You can live a long time in Hollywood and never see the part they use in pictures...

All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All I did was nothing.

I didn't ask to see you. You sent for me. I don't mind your ritzing me or drinking your lunch out of a Scotch bottle. I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.