Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

You must know what you need to do every day to carry out your mission

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

The untented Kosmos my abode, I pass, a wilful stranger:My mistress still the open roadAnd the bright eyes of danger.

This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Only when we have something to value, will we have something to evaluate.. and we cannot value something that we cannot share, exchange, and examine.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

A lot of actresses will just go, "I'm 35." And I thought, " I'm not doing that." I like being 40.