I'm all done with hating you. It's all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don't hate them very long.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.

She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight.

It is not a fragrant world.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.