I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.