If your ego is in good shape you will pretend you're surprised if a National Chairman calls you to tell you his party wants to nominate you for President of the United States, but you're not really surprised.

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

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

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.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

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.