To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

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.

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.

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

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.

Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself.