“Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place.”

“Nice concept.-What is?-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.”

“Pessimism is not good for the soul.""I sold my soul years ago.""To whom?""The bitch goddess Success. She cut town before paying off.”

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”

“The key to excellent report writing' he said between chews, 'is to take every bit of passion out of it. Use an extra heaping portion of superflously extraneous tautological redundancies in order to make it mind-numbingly boring. So that when one's superior officers read it, they zone out and start skimming and maybe don't notice the fact that one has been spinning one's wheels since the body turned up and hasn't solved a goddamn thing.”

“a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected.”

“The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)”