Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?
Now I know why tigers eat their young.
I have built my organization upon fear.
Public service is my motto.
It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.
I've lost a million and a half on the horses and dice in the last two years. And the funny part is, I still like 'em, and if someone handed me another million I'd put it right in the nose of some horse that looked good to me.
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.
In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.