“Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.”

“New York is the place where everyone will stop a championship fight to look at an usher giving a drunk the bum's rush.”

“Much as he is opposed to lawbreaking he is not bigoted about it.”

“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.”

“Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.”

“I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone wont either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are...”

“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”