A woman is a funny animal. - James M. Cain

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake.

Sit here, now, and look. The water, the surf, the colors on the shore. You think they make the beauty of the tropical sea, aye, lad? They do not. 'Tis the knowledge of what lurks below the surface of it, that awful-looking thing, as you call it, that carries death with every move that it makes. So it is, so it is with all beauty. So it is with Mexico. I hope you never forget it.

Stealing a man’s wife, that’s nothing, but stealing his car, that’s larceny.