And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in...
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.
There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that. The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount; it has merely increased the adeptness wit...
The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.
The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips.
Racket beer, sonny, he said sadly. Tasteless as a roadhouse blonde. (Spanish Blood)
Maybe it's the TV commercials. They make you hate everything they try to sell. God, they must think the public is a halfwit. Every time some jerk in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his...
Los editores y otros deberían dejar de preocuparse por la pérdida de clientela que puede causarles la televisión. El tipo que puede soportar un trío de anuncios de desodorantes para mirar a Flashgun C...
I used to like mine with champagne. The champagne as cold as Valley Forge and about a third of a glass of brandy beneath it.
I didn't have anything really exiting to drink, like nitroglycerin or distilled tiger breath.
He opened the rear door and I got in and sank down into the cushions and George slid under the wheel and started the big car. It moved away from the curb and around the corner with as much noise as a...
Call me Sunset. I'm always moving west.
A good title is the title of a successful book.
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
—El alcohol es como el amor —expresó—. El primer beso es magia; el segundo, intimidad; el tercero, rutina. Después de eso lo que hacemos es desvestir a la muchacha.
Twice. You
You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.
There are one hundred and ninety ways of being a bastard and Carne knew all of them.