Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production, and in the end not even that, since showmanship on the most frankly commercial level contains an element of incessant striving for perfection, if it be only a perfection of detail.

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) American novelist

The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler [ed. Frank MacShayne] (1976)