The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

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.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

People don't come to Marvel movies for personal life subplots, no.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

You need to constantly examine your life, inner and outer, to see where you are losing and gaining power.

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.

My problem is I’m peaceful, and I believe in the people.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.