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

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

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

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

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.