There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.