If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.