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.

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

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.

I like women. I really like women.

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

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

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.