Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Enemies are an indication of character.

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

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

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

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

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.