“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. Tha...”

“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”

“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”

“Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.”

“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”

“In her mind the U.S. was nothing more and nothing less than a pas overrun by gangsters, putas, and no-accounts. Its cities swarmed with machines and industry, as thick with sinvergencera as Santo D...”

“Nicky turned and bolted. Hed only had about a thirty foot head start and a few were closing ground on him quickly. He cursed his hundred-dollar shoes and his vanity. The shoes looked great, but wer...”

“Nicky turned and bolted. He’d only had about a thirty foot head start and a few were closing ground on him quickly. He cursed his hundred-dollar shoes and his vanity. The shoes looked great, but we...”

“By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.”

“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”

“Perhaps that cruel girl was right? I should be a good girl, and my friend will be fine. I am too dramatic, always seeing the end in a flower blossom, the destruction in a raindrop. I must accept th...”

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”

“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”

“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”