Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

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.

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.