Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.Raymond Chandler
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.Raymond Chandler
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.Raymond Chandler
The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.Raymond Chandler
