Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

Those who never think of money need a great deal of it.

Very few of us are what we seem.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.