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

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

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

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.