Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University..

[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without ….

Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me,….

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 s….

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

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-h….

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..

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

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight..

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..