The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.