He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.