As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

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.

The doom of destruction is the snare of sin.

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles.

...escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

What is not recorded is not remembered.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Look inside my soul and you can find gold and maybe get rich. Look inside of your soul and you can find out it never exists.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.