Tragedy alters everything.

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.