Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.