It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

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

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.

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