Mark McPherson: I suspect nobody and everybody. I am strictly trying to get at the truth.
Barton Keyes: Walter, you're all washed up.
Richard Wanley: There are only three ways to deal with a blackmailer. You can pay him and pay him and pay him until you're penniless. Or you can call the police yourself and let your secret be known to the world. Or you can kill him.
Helen Grayle: I hadn't supposed there were enough murders these days to make detecting very attractive to a young man.
Philip Marlowe: I stir up trouble on the side.
Willi Hilfe: We thought you'd been killed.
Stephen Neale: Not quite.