“I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different.”

“I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.”

“Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.”

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”

“I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.”

“There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”

“I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.”