When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

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.

Courage.Hope.Sacrifice.

Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

They tell me 'find God' like I don't know where He at. And if He lost, then why we followin' Him? Just acknowledge the fact that a Father exists, And a Devil's alive...I'm just caught in the mix.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.