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.

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

I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

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.

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

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.