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.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

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.

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

I like women. I really like women.

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