Opinions, from experts, cost money.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.