Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.