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.

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the look-out for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel.

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps.

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.

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.