What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

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

Opinions, from experts, cost money.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have been detective stories until there were democracies, because the very foundation of the detective story is the thesis that if you're guilty you'll get it in the neck and if you're innocent you can't possibly be harmed. No matter who you are.

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.