You Don't Pay A Prostitute For Sex,

What I Try To Do Is Write A Story About A Detective Rather Than A Detective Story. Keeping The Reader Fooled Until The Last, Possible Moment Is A Good Trick And I Usually Try To Play It, But I Can't Attach More Than Secondary Importance To It. The Puzzle Isn't So Interesting To Me As The Behavior Of The Detective Attacking It.

Listen, Dundy, It's Been A Long Time Since I Burst Into Tears Because A Policeman Didn't Like Me.

Brigid: I Haven't Lived A Good Life - I've Been Bad, Worse Than You Could Know. Spade: That's Good, Because If You Actually Were As Innocent As You Pretend To Be, We'd Never Get Anywhere.

I Once Knew A Man Who Stole A Ferris Wheel.

I Deserve All The Love You Can Spare Me. And I Want A Lot More Than I Deserve.