When the guns roar, the arts die.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory