If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

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.

Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler. Awesome year, right?

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?

Be strong. Don't be a follower, and always do the right thing. If you have a choice between the right thing and the wrong thing, the right way is always the less stressful.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.

Take off your rubber and there's one more inside her, it's not yours, who can it be?