The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

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.

You don't need to know why God sent you to the earth before you say "yes" to what He sent you for! He wants you to prosper and he is the only one who knows "how?"!

There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Politics is downstream from culture.

The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

The Democrats' version of immigration is all about securing additional votes.