The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

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.

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.