Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

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

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

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.