“Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.”

“I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.”

“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”

“The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of cause.”

“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”

“You take a man half-bad and a woman half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between. That's you [our son].”

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”

“If I paint a girl in the sunlight, it's the sunlight I am painting, not the real girl; and even fort hat I should have the sunlight on my palette. I don't care for an accidental effect of light and shade, a thing of 'mere charm.”

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”

“The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman — a matter of millimetres.”