You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

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.

I dance to the music in my heart.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

I used to wear more makeup, but I've learned to enjoy being natural.

Nobody respects women more than Donald Trump.

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.