I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

One thing I’ve noticed about getting older, it takes twice as much work to get half the results one formerly achieved by falling out of bed.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries.