Tall, aren't you? I didn't mean to be.

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.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

To understand how to be healthy, a person must first comprehend sickness, disease and death.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

I am an Aries. Although I do not believe in astrology, I think this is exactly the right sign to have been born under.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!