The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

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.

In calmness of mind is greatness.

Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men

In my father’s scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.

It's such a happiness when good people get together.

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.