“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.”

“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.”

“New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.”

“Well, now, Dobber has a pretty fair sort of memory, and he says that Miss Sarah Brown tells The Sky that since he seems to know so much about the Bible, maybe he remembers the second verse of the Song of Solomon, but the chances are Dobber muffs the number of the verse, because I look the matter up in one of these Gideon Bibles, and the verse seems a little too much for Miss Sarah Brown, although of course you never can tell.”

“I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.”

“So what does that make you think about God?I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.”

“You're all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. You'll never crack the code that's inside my head. You'll never get into my castle. You'll never even get past the gate.”