'They say money don't stink,' he said. 'I sometimes wonder.'

He had a battered face that looked as if it had been hit by everything but the bucket of a dragline. It was scarred, flattened, thickened, checkered, and welte…

I needed a drink. I needed a lot of life insurance. I needed a vacation. I needed a home in the country. What I had was a hat, a coat and a gun. I put them on …

Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

At the heart of every great fortune lies a great crime.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to th…

I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it.