The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.