The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

Like, when you kiss him, POW, he gets hit by a bear. Totally not your fault. You shouldn't feel bad about that. It's not your bear.

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.

It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

I remember when I got my first Adam Sandler CD and it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, and continues to be.

No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!