I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.