He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

If anyone wants one my advise is to go where the orthodox Jews shop, because when it comes to a big black fedora, the guys with ringlets and long black coats definitely know a stylish hat when they see one. You want to get it home and use a hot steaming kettle, and bob's your uncle - you have a hat with all the right curves!

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!