We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.