You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

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.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

We are all poets, really.

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

Innovation is simply a holistic approach to exploring extra ordinary work to birthing products or services. Innovation is the magic!

If you love three people at the same time, choose the first one, because if there was a 4th or 5th one, you might still fall for them.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.