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

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

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

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

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

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.