Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.