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If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.

As my grandmother used to say, if you've got nothing good to say about someone, let's hear it.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

We turned out to be good for each other. For a stitch of time all the hard questions went away and hid in dark places.

You know what I realized?" "What?" "Most of the people I know are dead. I guess that happens

WHEN you hit a gay bar in the middle of a weekday afternoon you wonder why they don't call it something else.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.

I find him whelming, personally. Neither overwhelming nor underwhelming but somewhere in the middle.

When someone put money in your hand you closed your fingers around it and put it in your pocket.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

I heard the pitter patter of little old feet.

The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.

It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.

Forcible sodomy and illegal entry, you put them both down and you get a jury confused. They figure it's two ways of saying the same thing.

Fiction works because a part of the mind forgets that it's fiction while we're reading it.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

He was always inclined to be a moody man, very exuberant when things were going right, very depressed when they weren't.

I can't persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me.

Many of us may not know too much about our characters, but we tell the reader altogether too much.

Well, you live and you learn, and generally in that order. I

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

Cain said he wasn't Abel's keeper. Are those our only choices, keeper or killer?

I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

There is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.

Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.

When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.

People go through changes and life does the damnedest things to us all.

Novels are written - as life is lived - One Day At A Time.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

all six of them a license." "That

Booze and tobacco and lots of sex. It keeps a lad young.

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

Everybody has mean little places inside himself.

If you want to write fiction, the best thing you can do is take two aspirins, lie down in a dark room, and wait for the feeling to pass.

Come on in," Elaine said. "She's already here. Pam, this is Mr. Scudder, Matthew Scudder. Matt, I'd like you to meet Pam.

I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.

It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.
Mick Ballou

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

He's got a new BMW now, thanks to the Galaxy. He can't spell it, but he can drive it like crazy.

Being dead means never having to do anything sneaky.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.

Fuck you! I hope you die!"
"Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.

Life, I announced, is not a B picture. Well, it ain't no De Mille epic either, boss. Things'll work out, Bernie.

She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.

You got to ask a street question to get a street answer.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man,