Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.