He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning.

Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.