A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.