“Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't and dead men can't.”

“An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.”

“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”

“God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”

“It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.”

“Dead Max was the biggest oxymoron in history.”

“Margie had known many men, most of them guilty, wounded in their vanity, or despairing, so that she had developed a contempt for her quarry as a professional hunter of vermin does. It was easy to move such men through their fears and their vanities. They ached so to be fooled that she no longer felt triumph--only a kind of disgusted pity.”