I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

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

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

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.