Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything.

I miss my mattress when I am gone; It's one thing I've made an impression on.

you have the right to live a beautiful life