you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

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.

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.