The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

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.

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

They got the guns But we got the numbers.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Dover's cliffs call to mind the Roman invasion; the Battle of Britain; our proximity to, yet difference from, mainland Europe; and international trade and exploration, both fair and exploitative.

I remember the first few months of the [Ronald] Reagan administration when all sorts of things happened too fast. We cannot allow that to happen.

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.