A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.

I like women. I really like women.

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.