Raymond Chandler

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”

“The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.”

“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”

“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”

“A really good detective never gets married.”

“It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.”