The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

Nora said: 'I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice and know such fascinating people.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

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.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.