I don't in any sense think of myself as a celebrity, which of course I'm not.

London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.

There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.

All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade.