Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

Gentlemen, let's go row!

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

Behind every mystery lies another mystery.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.