Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

The only Christian work is good work, well done