I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.