Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides, preferably a little wilted.

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.