He (the Agent) Just Takes Ten Per

There Are People Who Can Write Their Memoirs With A Reasonable Amount Of Honesty, And There Are People Who Simply Cannot Take Themselves Seriously Enough. I Think I Might Be The First To Admit That The Sort Of Reticence Which Prevents A Man From Exploiting His Own Personality Is Really An Inverted Sort Of Egotism.

If People Could Deal With Each Other Honestly, They Would Not Need Agents.

In Everything That Can Be Called Art There Is A Quality Of Redemption.

Dashiell Hammett Took Murder Out Of Thevenetian Vase And Dropped It Into The Alley.

When A Book, Any Sort Of Book, Reaches A Certain Intensity Of Artistic Performance It Becomes Literature.