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

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.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

Whatever you dream of is a possibility.

If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.

Once I learned how to be a healthy vegan by eating the right foods my performance improved dramatically.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

Faith is trust or commitment to what you think is true.