This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you're not.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life.

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.