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

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

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

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.