The moment a man begins to talk about technique thats proof that he is fresh out of ideas. – Raymond Chandler
Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be. – Raymond Chandler
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. – Raymond Chandler
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, Is it? Why? Why is it like that? Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. – Alice Englert