57 Quotes by Budd Schulberg

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

You either go along with the system – conform to what is expected to be a hit – or you have very tough going.

I don’t like the country. The crickets make me nervous.