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.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

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.

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 trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

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