With What Dope I Got

The People Who Lie The Most Are Nearly Always The Clumsiest At It, And They're Easier To Fool With Lies Than Most People, Too. You'd Think They'd Be On The Look-out For Lies, But They Seem To Be The Very Ones That Will Believe Almost Anything At All.

Most Things In San Francisco Can Be Bought Or Taken.

I Like Women. I Really Like Women.

It's Sometimes Better To Pretend I Don't Hear The Sound Of Somebody In The Nearby Woods With A Shotgun.

What I Try To Do Is Write A Story About A Detective Rather Than A Detective Story. Keeping The Reader Fooled Until The Last, Possible Moment Is A Good Trick And I Usually Try To Play It, But I Can't Attach More Than Secondary Importance To It. The Puzzle Isn't So Interesting To Me As The Behavior Of The Detective Attacking It.