Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.