Richard Strauss

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.