The great thing in these cases is to keep an absolutely open mind. Most crimes, you see, are so absurdly simple.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare - creepily peculiar.

I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Take your diamonds and throw em up like you're bulimic. Yeah, the beat cold, but the flow is anemic.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead