Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

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

Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do.