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

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.

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.

To say goodbye is to die a little.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

I write music. I'm in a band.

Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.

lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.