You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

You can't have everything, even in California

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

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

It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.