“Reality is perception. Perception is description. Description is creation. Creation is life.”

“Life is art, Joe. Living is artistry. What we do, you and me, is artifice, but if it is artfully done, then it is art. What else is there but that which we create?”

“Yeah. Penicillin. You know that? It's made of mold. Pretty cool huh, how one kind of rottenness can cure another kind of rottenness.”

“Sometimes a soft touch can accomplish more than a thousand swords.”

“Devils and whores. It is bad luck to talk of such things without a drink in your hand.”

“I prefer a good honest whore over a dishonest wife”

“The value of goals is not in the future they describe, but the change in perception of reality they foster.”