名声不是凭空产生的，赞誉也不会自己增长，只有成就了功业，名声才会到来。 

Crime fiction is the perfect vehicle for exploring the darker side of human nature.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

释义：世间不存在永远轻松顺遂的处境，也没有无法逾越的艰难困境。人生在世，自始至终都有令人快乐的事，也总有让人忧虑的事。要用平和、辩证的心态看待生活，不因一时的困难而气馁，也不因一时的安逸而懈怠。

The meaning of life is not in how much you have, but in how you face loss.