Everything written with vitality expresses that vitality: there are no dull subjects, only dull minds.

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.

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me

One must also have faith to grow flowers...

Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.

Screenplays are the hardest thing to try to get right. They look so simple when they work, but they really destroy your brain cells trying to get them there.

Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts.

I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.

Your worst and most dangerous enemy is the person that injures you under the pretensions of friendship.

We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.

For me, I never abandoned the truck. Even though I’ve opened other things, the truck is still the lifeblood of who I am. That’s because I enjoy it. I believe in it. It’s everything that I am.