“Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.”

“The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.”

“Christmas is good news in a world of bad news. This was so on the first Christmas and on Christmas 1959 … Christmas brings hope to a dark world.”

“Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.”

“At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.”

“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”

“A journalist who has to borrow a typewriter is bad news.”

“Keitel is nobody but the man who runs my office.”

“Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.”

“Who gets to be best-liked in any community? Who is the most trusted? Why, the man who does the dirty job, of course, and does it with a smile. The man who does the job you couldn't bring yourself to do.”