“Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.”

“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.”

“Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”

“Ideas come from everything”

“I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.”

“There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.”

“I’m full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”