As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

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.

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.