I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don't want it any more.

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

But nothing seems to do any good.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

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.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.