The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 1 Quotes

“I was a licensed investigator who knocked off somebody who needed knocking off bad and he couldn’t get to me. So I was a murderer by definition and all the law could do was shake its finger.”
― Mickey Spillane, The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 1: I,the Jury / My Gun is Quick / Vengeance is Mine!

“After a quick shower and shave, I whipped up some scrambled eggs and shoveled them into me.”
― Mickey Spillane, The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume I

“Not a hunch. A fact. Some small, trivial fact. What was it? Could it be the answer? Something was bothering me terrifically. I tried some more beer. No. No. No ... no ... no ... no ... no. The answer wouldn’t come. How must our minds be made? So complicated that a detail gets lost in the maze of knowledge. Why? That damn ever-present WHY. There’s a why to everything. It was there, but how to bring it out? I tried thinking around the issue, I tried to think through it. I even tried to forget it, but the greater the effort, the more intense the failure.”
― Mickey Spillane, The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume I