I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year, just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumour.

Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumor.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in the stained glass window.

But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, and who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

I went out of the kitchen to make coffee — yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The life blood of tired men.

Alcohol is like love; the first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that, you just take the girl's clothes off.

Redheads, don't jump, Tony. They hang on-and wither.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.