Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

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.

Hope is joy.

Our only fate is to lie in the beds that we make.

Remember how to breathe, how to live...please!!

Don't write about that which you don't know.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Dad: someone who hopes his son will turn out just like him, and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.