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.

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

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

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

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

Everything in a story should be credible.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote