It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his stuff I knew he had something. So I dropped a heavy glass skylight on his head at a drinking party. But you can't kill the guy. He's not human.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!