Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.

Like most modern people, I don't believe in prophecy or magic and then spend half my time practicing it.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind--but he must get there first.

A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

I'd rather be the last runner who saw a cool thing that everyone else missed, than to be a speedy runner who had a miserable experience.

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is."

When you hear from other players and they're telling you you're the best pitcher in baseball, that makes you feel really good.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!

Anytime you put a baseball player in a suit and take him out of his element its uncomfortable.

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]