If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.
Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.
When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead bodies and an unsolved problem on Indian Island.