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

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

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.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted.

For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.

Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi.

My character Jack in the New York Spring Spectacular is a lot of fun. He's playful, he's full of life. He can make things come to life. He can make things happen.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor!

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.