“People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.”

“Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.”

“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”

“People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.”

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”