I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

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

Useless as a pulled tooth.