I said: ‘All right, talk, but do you mind putting the gun away? My wife doesn't care, but I'm pregnant.
What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
She stared at him dully and said: I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you. She tu...
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.
The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered
I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble.
Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling.I didn't mean no harm, I said and kissed her. That a new dress?Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.
I guess I can put two and two together.Sometimes the answer's four, I said, and sometimes it's twenty-two...
You know Quinn? Macaulay asked me.Ten minutes ago I was putting him to bed.Macaulay grinned. I hope you keep his acquaintance like that - socialMeaning what?Macaulay's grin became rueful. He used to b...
Nora was eating a piece of cold duck with one hand and working on a jig-saw puzzle with the other when I got home.I thought you'd gone to live with her, she said. You used to be a detective: find me a...
How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?Why don't you stay sober today?We didn't come to New York to stay sober.
It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow.
What do you do with all your money?Me and the French hoard gold.
He's the guy that the joke was wrote about: 'Is he a criminal lawyer?' 'Yes, very.
She tilted her head to the right. You didn't even tell me you had taken the case.I had done what? Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I hadn't and haven't. My getting shot ought to prove I was an innocent...
He opened the door wider. He's waiting. He gave me what was probably meant to be a significant wink, but a corner of his mouth moved more than his eye did and the result was a fairly startling face.
What was that joke about a guy being so thin he had to stand in the same place twice to throw a shadow?
He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.