Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

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

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

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.