... nothing is so boring as devotion.

Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.