57 Quotes by James M. Cain

Just you and me and the road. Just a couple of tramps, just a couple of gypsies, that's it, but we'll be together.

Yes, it was rape, but only technical, brother, only technical. Above the waist, maybe she was worried about the sacrilegio, but from the waist down she wanted me, bad. There couldn't be any doubt about that.

We only have two kinds of weather in California, magnificent and unusual.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and seen her take it off. I am 54 years old, weigh 220 pounds, and look like the chief dispatcher of a long-distance driving concern. I am a registered Democrat. I drink.

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

Time is the only critic.