... obsessions are always dangerous.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

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.

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

The heart of a woman who loves will forgive many blows.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.