Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.