I've never killed a man, but I've read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

When Marilyn Monroe got out of the game, I wrote something like, 'Southern California's special horror notwithstanding, if the world offered nothing, nowhere t…

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and t…

'Normality is death.'