Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

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)

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

... nothing is so boring as devotion.

With thought, all problems can be resolved.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]