Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

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

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.