If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.

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.

Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.

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

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

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.

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.