I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.