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.

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

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

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.