I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.