It is not a fragrant world.

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.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

The body is God's temple, but we are to worship God, not the temple.

Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

Savour your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.