With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

die daily.hourly, if you'vegot the energy.

Bitter truths have the need to expect backups if they are shared at all.

Some wounds never show, not even in the mirror, until we see them in the expressions on the faces of people we love.

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing.

Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.

Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

I'm a mother, and my life is very full.

You can be a dreamer, but don't live in your bed.