The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

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.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

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.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

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