An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

One cannot go over Niagara Falls in a barrel only slightly.

All my muscles are in my face. I have a very muscular face. I'm good with faces. I always have been.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

Success is made up of courage, brains, and luck. Since the first two are a function of the third, it's pretty much all luck.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.

Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.