Quotes by Raymond Chandler

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

It is not a fragrant world.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.