Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passe before it gets into print.

Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in all times and conditions, to seek the truth out and find it and let the chips fall where they may—until that time comes, I have the right to listen to my conscience, and protect my client the best way I can. Until I'm sure you won't do him more harm than you'll do the truth good. Or until I'm hauled before somebody that can make me talk.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.