The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

I was surrounded by phonies...They were coming in the goddam window.

If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.

I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.