I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very persnickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.