He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.

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.

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885, 000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187, 500 in 1936.)

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous he is free from anxiety being wise he is free from perplexity being brave he is free from fear.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

The problem with snapshots is that they replace actual memories. You lock down the moment and it becomes all there is of it.

Where one is present, God is the second, and where there are two, God is the third.

If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.

This is no time to make new enemies.