Sal

“It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

“People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
― Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five