“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

The only victory over love is flight.

I start out by believing the worst

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.

It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

There’s a long history of all kinds of cop films… But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing over the bad guys.

Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys.

No one ever writes a book in which he is the bad guy.

I don’t think human beings are bad. They’re weak. And that’s what makes ’em bad.

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.