if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

I say, Watson,’ he whispered, ‘would you be afraid to sleep in the same room as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?’ ‘Not in the least,’ I answered in astonishment. ‘Ah, that’s lucky,’ he said, and not another word would he utter that night.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.