As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

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.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.

I think you've got something there, but I'll wait outside until you clean it up.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.