Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

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.

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way.

The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.

My heart is broken... I'm lying here My thoughts are choking On you my dear.

Embrace your constraints.

I worked with John, but I had enough sense to walk just a little ways behind him. I could have made more records, but I wanted to have a marriage.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

I was aware now, as ever, that between all people there were First Times You See Them and Last Times you See Them.

In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.