Raymond ChandlerThinkers

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine.

Art is insofar as it is art, possessed of a quality of redemption.

Boston is a city God made on a wet Sunday.

California is the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence that you can find outside an advertising agency.

Hollywood is full of mediocre talents. If the writers were any worse, they would not have been invited, and if they were any better, they wouldn't come.

Hollywood is a world with all the personality of a paper cup.

Literature is when a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance.

Organized crime is just the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

The Story cannot be devised if it's any good - it has to be distilled.

The Story happens to characters you care about.