Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.
The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.
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.
To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.