💬 Quotes

"I’ve spent the last ten years trying to find the next big thing, and all I’ve found is that the next big thing is usually just a desperate, hollow version of the last big thing."

"I’m quite a different boy now."

"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

"I always was a man of counsel, and I always thought there was enough for all."

"You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."

"The thought of the money swallows up the world."

"Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!"

"Please, sir, I want some more."

"If the law supposes that, the law is a ass—a idiot."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"It is because you have not had a kind and fostering hand to lead you, and a gentle heart to soothe you, that you are so much the more to be pitied."

"The people of this world are divided into two classes: the sheep and the wolves."

"I fear that there are some natures which can only be turned to light by the aid of the darkness that surrounds them."

"The thing about the street is that it don't just take your life, it takes your time. You’re always waiting for something to happen, and when it does, it’s over before you can even catch your breath."

"You don't get out of the life because you're good; you get out because you're lucky, or because you're tired, or because the math finally stops working in your favor."

"Most people think the cops are there to stop the crime. The cops are there to manage the crime, like a gardener managing a patch of weeds. You don't get rid of them, you just keep them from choking the whole garden."

"Every kid in this neighborhood grows up with two paths in front of him: the one that leads to a desk he’ll never sit at, and the one that leads to a corner he’ll never leave."

"In the projects, you’re either the one holding the leash or the one feeling the bite. There ain't no middle ground for people who want to keep their soul intact."

"Truth isn't what happened. Truth is what you can convince a jury or a captain or a conscience to believe when the lights go down."

"The past is a phantom that won't stop bleeding into the present."