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

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

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

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

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