If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will.

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.

Don't underestimate the power of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself to deliver peace and serenity.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.

Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

My baby is weird man... when he get mad, he gets in the oven.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.

Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.