There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.