Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.