"A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said."

"Money has no moral opinions."

"A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead."

"Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?"

"You must never throw away things that are worth good money."

"Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?"

"If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody."