Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

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