I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

...am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

Are you free or were you sold a facsimile of freedom?

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals.

The scrutiny we give other people should be for ourselves.

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

When I make a joke, nobody gets injured... when Congress makes a joke, it's the law.