... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

People should be interested in books, not their authors.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

You're shocked, Mr. Burton, at hearing what our gossiping little town thinks. I can tell you this - they always think the worst!