We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.
Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.
They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.
Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.
Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you – like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.
Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you’ll see your enemy go by in a hearse.
No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.
If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.