But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

That there is a secret itself is a secret.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.