I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always a sign of weakness.

Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

A man doesn't wasnt to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)