John Varner

“I don’t like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don’t like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don’t like them in the first place.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble Is My Business

“He who attempts to transform mud into diamonds should expect to have to wash his clothes often,” Chiun had said, and this had”
― Warren Murphy, Ship of Death

“guess I can put two and two together.” “Sometimes the answer’s four,” I said, “and sometimes it’s twenty-two.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.”
― Raymond Chandler, Trouble is My Business