There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.