violentwavesofemotion:

Raymond Chandler, from a letter to Edward Weeks:

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.

“And also my cat says to hell with you.”