The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

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.

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

Love is being able to carry each others circumstances and making it your own, even though you didn't play a role in its foundation.

...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I do not want to return to the Ukraine of the 1990s and the time of privatization. Ninety-eight percent of Ukrainian companies obey the laws.