All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

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.

Wall your life, guard your heart and mind your mind! A life without a wall least blocks something! A mind without a wall accepts anything at all!

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Sorry, just ignore the man behind the curtain. Great, a subconscious with a sense of humor.

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

There have been other tracks that separated the men from the boys. This is the track that will separate the brave from the weak after the boys are gone.

In political life, it is extremely difficult to remain loyal to a friendship when constellations of power or interests are in the way.

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.

Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.