One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

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.

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

People expect what they expect.. They never realize the possibility of surprise beyond expectations..!

One must be able to let things happen.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

All good art is abstract.

As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.