I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it. - Rex Stout

There are various ways to call a man a liar. One way is just to scream it at him, which doesn't prove anything. Another is to establish facts by long and patient investigation. Still another way is not to call him a liar at all – let him do it himself.

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous scene.

What do I believe in? Belief means faith, and there's only one damn thing in the world I have any faith in. That's the idea of American democracy, because it seems to me so obvious that that's the only sensible way to run human affairs.