Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

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 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.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.