Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.