Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

Money has no country.

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.