The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on ….

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

There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick..

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe..

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for….

Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boil….

What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damned thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, ….

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels..

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself..

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him..

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, so….

I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done ….

A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries..

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous..

A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating..

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear..

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises….

Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the mont….

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

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits..

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality.