I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.