Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

It is not a fragrant world.

It is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be in the grasp of superficially educated people.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

I do a great deal of research, especially in the apartments of tall blondes.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.