What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

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 think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.