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

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.

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

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

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