I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

I certainly admire people who do things.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.

The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.