If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."

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.

"I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself. [ from "Endless Night"]"

"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."