Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.
I gazed into the mirror. . . There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook
Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!
Reeducation needs careful tending, like an English lawn. Even one moment of negligence, and the weeds crop up again ~ those indestructible weeds of historical truth.
I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled to go back to them over and over until I learn more and more about them, without even quite thinking it's material for a book.
A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.
How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.