“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”

“Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over...”

“Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad.”

“At the roadsides I never had a really good dinner or a really bad breakfast.”

“There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good, we think always of wisdom, tolerance, kindliness, generosity, humility; and the qualities of cruelty, greed, self-interest, graspingness, and rapacity are universally considered undesirable. And yet in our structure of society, the so-called and considered good qualities are invariable concomitants of failure, while the bad ones are the cornerstones of success…Perhaps no other animal is so torn between alternatives. Man might be described fairly adequately, if simply, as a two-legged paradox.”

“Once you have lived in New York and made it your home, no place else is good enough”

“When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.”