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

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.

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.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

If you expect the battle to be insurmountable, you've met the enemy.It's you.

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.

Wink and shut their apprehensions up.

Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.