You can't have everything, even in California

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.

If I was alone I'd find something to do. Read or work on homework or doodle, fake it, so if I was alone it'd look like I wanted to be alone.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.