Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.

I got a kick out of having a big bankroll in my pocket. Even if I only made a couple hundred dollars, I'd always keep it in fives and tens so it'd look big.

I never killed a guy who didn't deserve it.

I have killed no men, that, in the first place, didn't deserve killing

Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if youseal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.