A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

Eyes - the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.