“A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.”

“I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye.”

“Why do people all over the world, and at all times, want marvels that defy all verifiable facts? And are the marvels brought into being by their desire or is their desire an assurance rising from some deep knowledge, not to be directly experienced and questioned, that the marvelous is indeed an aspect of the real?”

“It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way”

“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.”

“Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.”

“If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.”