Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.