As Richard has pointed out on several occasions, I subscribe to the irregular verb theory of life: I am a trained investigator, you have a healthy curiosity, she/he is a nosy parker.

A society gets the criminals it deserves.

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

Time for the likeliest story since Mary told Joseph it was God’s.

When all else fails, go for the ego.

No woman is a heroine to her dentist.

Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.

There is nothing like race, is there?

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

Cowards can never be moral.

Everyone believes that he abounds in wisdom, but is short of money.

I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.

As a new day begins in New York, the sun sets in Hawaii.