Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
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.
Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.