Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.