The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length.

Love is cheap. You can buy it anywhere. Lives are cheap. It's money that's dear. You have to work days and sit up nights thinking how to make money.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

This ain't a war... It's a goddam whorehouse.

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?