Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

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 just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow you'd be content with yourself.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

According to a new study, Hawaii is the happiest place in America to live. And I thought it was just a great place to pretend you were born in.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.