There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.