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

“Ka works and the world moves on.”

“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.”

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”

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

“Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.”

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