Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
Ruth RendellI try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.
Ruth Rendellthe English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.
Ruth Rendell