"Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick,""Huckleberry Finn,""A Farewell to Arms,""The Scarlet Letter,""The Red Badge of Courage,""The Iliad and The Odyssey,""Crime and Punishment,"the Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"— are all about what a bummer it is to be a ...human being?"
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber."
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
"Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it."
"You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three."
"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia."