“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”

“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”

“As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style.”

“You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.”

“I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.”

“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”

“I went out the kitchen to make coffee - yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.”