Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.

People don't want advice...only corroboration.

Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.