I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

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.

Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't want us just to love each other and marry and get tired of each other and then want to marry some one else.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.