Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

It is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.