Nothing in this world came out of satisfaction. Except the human race.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.

The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack you.

To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?"

The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.