Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.
Everybody's got their troubles.
When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.