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All I have is withering perception. Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate.

Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers.

I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense.

I am the son of a murdered woman - anybody who'd call my books misogynistic is, frankly, out of their fucking mind.

There's none with me, although you've seen me before - I'm outrageous.

The overarching joy and lasting appeal of noir is that it makes doom fun.

Bergen, and Oldfield. The

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

Serial killers were hopped-up eyeball fuckers and ravaged inner children. They were scary in the moment and as dismissible as an empty box of popcorn.

All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

So many wicked ways to scandal-skin a cat.

Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.

She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

I have a very intense marriage.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.

I had chewed a big steak two hours before, swallowing the juice and spitting out the meat, and I could smell animal blood in my sweat.

Breuning drove. Dudley sat up front Carlisle sat in back, with three sawed-off shotguns.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

There is no proportion. Pearl Harbor took care of that.

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective.

It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.

Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.

Don't be so goddamn proper. Don't be such a fucking saint.

Some people don't respond to civility.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." - Claire de Haven

Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. - Proverbs 3:31

Yes, my friends - it's becoming Jewniversally apparent.

Closure is bullshit.

1:52 a.m. His favorite nightcap - coffee and Benzedrine.

I want to burn down the distance between us

May giant circus elephants shit on your lawn. May bug-eyed gargoyles eat your young.

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

I haven't been to a movie in a year and a half.

He felt sandbagged. Doomsday, Armageddon. Booze begets instant misconduct and regret. He walked to the couch and fell down.

The driver drove by roadway Braille

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

It's all sex for me. Politics is sex. Race is sex. It's the novel. It's the novel!

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

I got an emergency leave. I visited my dad on his deathbed. His last words to me: "Try to pick up every waitress who serves you.

You get up in the morning because you might meet a woman. And if you stay at home by yourself, alone, you will not meet a woman.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

You can't make history all the time, Dougie.
Sometimes the best you can do is make money.

Some Japs killed themselves. Who gives a shit? No tickee, no washee. Where's Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto? It's Sunday morning - this sure beats church.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

They were heedless of the fact that they'd gain more converts if they just stopped talking.

If it would've been me, I would've left Hutch out of it. 'Cause Hutch, he was mean.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.

Blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

Qualifications don't count. All Ike did was invade Europe and look like your uncle.

You'd be better served taxing your conscience for those who deserve your regret.