Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

nobody ever finds the one