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

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

“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.”

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

“Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.”

“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”

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