The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

No man can discover his own talents.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.