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

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

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're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second “you.