Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.
Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
Unnatural death always provoked a peculiar unease, an uncomfortable realization that there were still some things that might not be susceptible to bureaucratic control.