[Epitaph:] Involved in a plot.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

He is a writer for the ages, the ages of four to eight.

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.