One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.
Self-plagiarism is style.
Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.
I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.