God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold - if you have one.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

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.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

I'm not a collector. I don't keep letters, or books, or souvenirs. But I do keep one copy of each translation of my books into a foreign language. Have you ever seen a murder story printed in Singhalese? Wow!