Personal Canon

“Well, he won’t be doing the crossword tonight.”

“Nothin’ in his stomach. Nothin’ but guts.”

“The simple truth is, not all of us become the men we once hoped we might be. But we are all God’s creatures.”

“Preoccupied with superstitions of centuries past, he became a dreamer for whom the line between the real and the supernatural became blurred.”

“Is there anything so just and true in this world that it has the right to live?”

“A stripper gettin’ dressed ain’t beautiful unless she’s ugly to begin with.”

“Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it’s bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year.”