It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

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.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

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

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.