Raymond Chandler Quotes

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read i

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

It is not a fragrant world.