In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

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.

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face.

I had never worked in that environment where you're able to play.

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.