Raymond Chandler

From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.

A really good detective never gets married.

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

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'