Doug

“Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.”
― Sue Grafton, D is for Deadbeat

“We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. "They don't know how to make them here," he said. "What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“I can just about promise you Philip Marlowe was never as dainty as I.”
― Sue Grafton, X