Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

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.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

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

A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.

I saw with my eyes people with and without purpose, people with the purpose know where they are going and the others follow the flow!?

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.

My mom won't let anyone treat me like a little princess.

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

You're much more interesting when you're online - all of us are.

Women were afraid and they would never even imagine running a marathon in 1967.

The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?"

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.