A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.

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

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

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

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.