Assumptions are dangerous things.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.