I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors.