“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

“Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.”

“surely they had passed the worst. All the luck had been against them, but sooner or later even the worst luck changes.”

“As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read the scripture the way those holy rollers on TV read the Book of Revelations. They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck. They read the scripture, but you can see a different scripture in their faces. Most cons are a low sort, no good to themselves or anyone else, and their worst luck was that their mothers carried them to term.”

“Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...”

“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”