When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?