Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.

A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

He was blessed with the ability to admire the unlovely. Or, I should say, he was blessed with the inability to feel there is a difference between lovely and un-.

The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.

We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other.

Conversation is a game of circles.

The greatest illusion is that mankind has limitations.

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.