Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

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.

i will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths.

The search to know has always been characterized by the need to doubt, the need to be critical, including the need to be self-critical.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

If you want to avoid Alzheimer's disease, sleep 8 hours a night.

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.

Coming from Google, you don't exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.