"As honest as you can expect a man to be in a world where its going out of style."
— Raymond Chandler
"I've been bad, worse than you could know."
— Dashiell Hammett
"I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights."
— Raymond Chandler
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)