"by literature I mean quite simply any sort of writing at all that reaches a sufficient intensity of performance to glow with its own heat." - Chandler
This is not an age of reason or tolerance, but in Hollywood you don't learn to be a hero. You learn to be expedient--or you get to hell out. - Chandler
Having just read the admirable profile of Hemingway in the New Yorker I realize that I am much to clean to be a genius, much too sober to be a champ, and far, far too clumsy with a shotgun to live the good life. - Chandler
The house itself was not so much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace, rather gray for California, and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler Building.
This is the ultimate end of the fog belt, and the beginning of that semi-desert region where the sun is as light and dry as old sherry in the morning, as hot as a blast furnace at noon, and drops like an angry brick at nightfall.