People are quite frequently eccentric.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.