I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

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.

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

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

Most things in San Francisco can be bought or taken.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.