No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting.

Time does not dispose of a question - it only presents it anew in a different guise.