Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.
I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.
I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.
It's a great life, if you don't weaken.
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.