“A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn’t have said.”

It’s an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That’s what directing is.

But to get your pleasure from not taking, from cheating yourself deliberately like my brother did today, from not getting, from not taking.

I’ll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

Money has no moral opinions.

I don’t take no dive for nobody. Whaddya think I am, a tanker!

D’you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars–an excitingday in a man’s life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up.

Don’t you see what a black thing that is for a man to do? How it is to hate yourself?

What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

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.

What do you mean “gangsters”? It’s business.

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.

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

Kids win this’n’that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand’s worth watchin’, one out of a million’s worth coffee and doughnuts.

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

There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God’s.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you’ll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

It’s a shame really because a couple days in Oklahoma will open your eyes to how much better it would be if the rest of the country was filled with a few more people from Oklahoma.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”

The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the world the duty is now emphasized of serving God in the world, in every position in life.

Money the root of evil guess I’m the devil then. God bless my soul to rest.