The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.
MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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.