As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

Opinions, from experts, cost money.

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

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