Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.
If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country
To say goodbye is to die a little.
I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.
Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.
A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.
As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.
When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.
I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
The challenge is to write about real things magically.
Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.
She had eyes like strange sins.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armour, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency.
Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives.... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.
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