too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.