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.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

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

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

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.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail