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

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

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

A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

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

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.