Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.