Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.