Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.