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

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

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

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.