We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

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

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

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

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

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

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