The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

I worked a lot with Mark Frankel, and he was really just an incredibly tender soul. He liked his hair just so and his suit. He was a good-looking man, and he cared about looking together.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there.

...He palmed up the life Alert. Death Alert was more like it: Help, I haven't fallen and I'm standing up-can you come and rectify this problem? - Isaac

Pessimism: A valuable protection against quackery.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.