Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.