There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.

Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with her handiwork for half a generation, you hardly notice anymore. You forget that this is not the way life has to be. You cease to marvel at just how much evil man con conjure by existing.