I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.