Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

Peter swept aside Yogi Tea and Harmony Herbal Blend, though he hesitated a second over the chamomile. .... But no. Violent death demanded Earl Grey.

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

The question that haunted every investigation was 'why'.

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

Foolish people are never harmless. Stupidity accounts for as many crimes as anger and greed.