I like women. I really like women.

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail

You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.