“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”

“Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.”

“War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.”

“I don't give a damn about what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care.”

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”

“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”

“I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.”

“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom though failure. We get very little wisdom from success.”

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”