“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”

“You're a stone cold killer, Frank. You kill people for a living. And so does this German guy. You aren't heroes. You're what most people fear. You're the antitheses of a hero. You ever think of that?”

“To think about fairness, think of economic life as a game - a serious game. All ideas about fairness can be divided into two broad groups. They are:- It isn't fair if the result isn't fair.- It isn't fair if the rules aren't fair.”

“You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.”

“I was asked once, 'you're a smart man,why aren't you rich?' I replied, 'you're a rich man, why aren't you smart?”

“You know, you left without saying good-bye. That's not like you, not that I have the slightest idea what you're like.”