It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

You have to loss something to gain something.

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.

I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East.

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.

Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

I would not consider myself to be a quote unquote real New York rapper. I don't even like New York rappers.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.