It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.