Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Money has no country.

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.