A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221½ B Baker Street and didn't find him.

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. (Nero Wolfe)

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.