An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.

Many homicidal lunatics are very quiet, unassuming people. Delightful fellows.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

"Look here," I said, "people like to collect disasters."