A wedge of sunlight slipped over the edge of the desk and fell noiselessly to the carpet.

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.

Life belongs to optimists. Pessimists are just viewers. Making it real, starts with our attitude.

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already.

Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.

A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

Friends are the family we choose.

The great Sir Isaac Newton, He once made a valid proclamation, That the forces equal to a nominated mass, when multiplied by acceleration That was the law of motion.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

I prefer being wrong in my own way to being right in someone else's.