Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go, 77

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

The Little Sister, p. 112

"The fear of today," he said, "always overrides the fear of tomorrow. It's a basic fact of the dramatic emotions that the part is greater than the whole. If you see a glamour star on the screen in a position of great danger, you fear for her with one part of your mind, the emotional part. Notwithstanding that your reasoning mind knows that she is the star of the picture and nothing very bad is going to happen to her. If suspense and menace didn't defeat reason, there would be very little drama."