Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.

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.

If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.

People sometimes cling to the strangest beliefs. On the one hand, they believe in an all loving God, but on the other hand they believe He will give you cancer to test or mature you.

Attitude is what you do effortlessly.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

So we become alive in a time of fear.