Defeat is a momentary thing. A defeat doesn't last. We were defeated and now we attack. Defeat means nothing. Can't you understand that? Do you know what they are whispering behind doors?

“Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he…”

“The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just st…”

“Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.”

“I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no diffe…”