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

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

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

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

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

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