I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
“If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.”
“I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.”