He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

Life was reduced to its four basic elements: air, food, drink, and a good friend.

There's nothing quite as irksome as someone else's mess.

I figure guys are like Whitman's Samplers. I like to take a little bite out of each and then move on before the whole box gets stale.

I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible.