Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.