You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.