It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.

I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

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

I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.