In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.

He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.

It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to 'ʌoo'.

I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.

The great thing about theater is the doing it again and again and again.