It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

Using adverbs is a mortal sin.

At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.

Try not to write the parts that people skip.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.

Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

You can go as far as you dream, think and imagine.

Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.