“When you've got the devil's own luck, you're immune from the usual run of disasters. Such people must be utilized.”

“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

“Who needs luck when you've got a key?”

“Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.”

“You've got to admit, slick, you got a skill for avoiding the devil.""That just means that now the devils out there, looking for me...and that devil is very mad.”

“Lady, when I met you I must have run through a puddle of luck”