At home, I have lot of pictures from 'The Walking Dead' and some stuff from comic books. At comic conventions, people will give me a lot of autographed stuff, so a lot of those are on my wall.


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RAYMOND CHANDLER
The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.....
RAYMOND CHANDLER
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must se...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
A good title is the title of a successful book.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your br...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The more you reason the less you create.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the l...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I a...
TYSON CHANDLER
High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where t...
KYLE CHANDLER
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head...
KYLE CHANDLER
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
RAYMOND CHANDLER
I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.
KYLE CHANDLER
When you walk out of your house in the morning, you don't know what you're going to see.
KYLE CHANDLER
Megan, I love you,. I will always love you."
I swallowed hard.
"Scared?" He asked.
"Y...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER
Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speakin...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER
That would be something,
BEN CHANDLER
I know some of the guys I play against, they say some things, ... I've just got to approach it like ...
BEN CHANDLER
As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the la...
BEN CHANDLER
I can either side with what I think is right as far as corruption is concerned, or I can wipe it und...
BEN CHANDLER
When I finished my term, I thought about running for governor then but decided not to because, frank...
BEN CHANDLER
As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerfu...
BEN CHANDLER
When Kentucky's veterans answered the call to duty, they showed our nation the ultimate respect. In ...
BEN CHANDLER
They're real guys, guys you can just go up to and talk to, ... They're not holier than thou. They're...
BEN CHANDLER
We have the type of team that can just jump on a team early and we can just hit 'em, ... We can't gi...
BEN CHANDLER