Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.

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.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

Waffles аrе јust awesome bread.

If age was temperature, You'd be getting hotter Happy 60th degree You, hot shotter

There is real comfort in being quiet.

Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.

The strongest presence is so often an absence.