It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun..

The roof might fall in; anything could happen..

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober..

To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted..

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner..

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight..

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother..

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two..

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works..

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve..

If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of wheth….

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice..

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a goo….

When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to g….

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble..

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery..

The outcome of successful planning always looks like luck to saps..

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one..

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter..

The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be ….

I once knew a man who stole a Ferris Wheel..