I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

Trains are wonderful.... To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.