It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.