“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”

“I wouldn't be a doctor for anything. That's the worst job.”

“Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.”

“(a man in love speaking)"I don't notice much of anything anymore but Marie." He laid his hand on his chest. "This force," he said, "it just does with you what it wants to do with you, makes you feel what it wants to make you feel."--"Tango”

“Maybe you like being unhappy so much, you wouldn't do anything to change it.”

“The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have never defended anything. Fourteen hundred persons are said to have died while building them. Of these fourteen hundred, about half are said to have been executed in public for substandard zeal.”

“What can any one person do?' he said.'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.”