I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back. |
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. |
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. |
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that. |
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me. |
I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest. |
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. |
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. |
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. |
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. |
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. |
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. |
It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting! |
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. |
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. |