We were very much in love—the wild, mysterious, improbable kind of love that never comes but once.
Una tipa que sonaba a borracha perdida cantaba ''Frankie and Johnny'' en versión marinera, con una voz que ni el whisky había logrado mejorar.
There was nothing to it. The Super Chief was on time, as it almost always is, and the subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket.
There was a time when actors went in at the back door. Most of them still should.
There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone...
The tragedy of life, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.
The challenge is to write about real things magically.
That's the trouble with cops. You're all set to hate their guts and then you meet one that goes human on you.
Sooner or later I may figure out why you like being a kept poodle.
Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.
So is he gonna wake up from that nap yet or what?
Sit down and rest your sex appeal.
She’s a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge’s second term, I’ll eat my spare tire, rim and all.
She put a hard-boiled sneer on her face and gave me plenty of time to get used to it
One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is ever happy anywhere.
I’m a lone wolf, unmarried…and not rich….I like liquor and women and chess and a few other things. The cops don’t like me too well, but I know a couple I get along with. I’m a native son, born in Sant...
I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I
I was a swell guy. I enjoyed being me.
I think you are a very stupid person. You look stupid. You are in a stupid business. And you came here on a stupid mission. I get it, I said. I’m stupid. It sank in after a while.
He’s just a lost dog, she added with a cool smile. Perhaps you can find a home for him. He’s housebroken—more or less. And